Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated River Water Sources 2012 (2012-355) (NSW)

2012 No 355

New South Wales

Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2012

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 Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources.

Dated this 11th day of July, 2012.

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 Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial

Water Sources 2012. The concurrence of the Minister for the Environment was obtained prior to making this Order.

Published LW 3 August 2012 1

2012 No 355

Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2012

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