Water Sharing Plan for the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated River Water Source 2011 (2012-22) (NSW)

2012 No 22

New South Wales

Water Sharing Plan for the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2011

under the

Water Management Act 2000

|, the Minister for Primary Industries, in pursuance of section 50 of the Water Management Act 2000, do, by this Order, make the following Minister's Plan for the Lower Murray- Darling Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources.

Dated this 30th day of November, 2011.

KATRINA HODGKINSON, MP Minister for Primary Industries

Explanatory note

This Order is made under section 50 of the Water Management Act 2000. The object of this Order is to make the Water Sharing Plan for the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2011. The concurrence of the Minister for the Environment was obtained prior to the making of this Order.

Published LW 27 January 2012 1

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Water Sharing Plan for the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2011

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