Water Sharing Plan for the Lachlan Unregulated River Water Sources 2012 (2012-458) (NSW)

2012 No 458

New South Wales

Water Sharing Plan for the Lachlan 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 Ministers Plan for the Lachlan Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources.

Dated this 8th day of August 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 Lachlan Unregulated and Alluvial

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

Published LW 14 September 2012

2012 No 458

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

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