Water Sharing Plan for the Upper Namoi and Lower Namoi Regulated River Water Sources 2016 (2015-631) (NSW)

New South Wales

Water Sharing Plan for the Upper Namoi and Lower Namoi Regulated River Water Sources 2016

under the

Water Management Act 2000

|, Niall Blair, the Minister for Primary Industries, Minister for Lands and Water, in pursuance of section 50 of the Water Management Act 2000, do, by this Order, make the following Minister's Plan for the Upper Namoi and Lower Namoi Regulated River Water Sources.

Dated this 6'" day of October 2015.

Niall Blair Minister for Primary Industries Minister for Lands and Water

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 Upper Namoi and Lower Namoi

Regulated River Water Sources 2016. The concurrence of the Minister for the Environment was obtained prior to the making of this Order.

Published LW 16 October 2015 (2015 No 631)

Water Sharing Plan for the Upper Namoi and Lower Namoi Regulated River Water Sources 2016

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