Water Management Act 2000

This section applies for the purpose of auditing compliance with the long-term extraction limit (however expressed) under a management plan.

The long-term extraction limit is taken to be varied by the amount of any change to the amount of water committed as licensed environmental water.

The variation in the long-term extraction limit is to be determined in accordance with a methodology approved by the Minister and published in the Gazette.

To avoid doubt, water savings in a system (within the meaning of section 8C) are not to be taken into account when determining the variation.

Water committed as licensed environmental water is not to be accounted for as extraction.