Water Sharing Plan for the Snowy Genoa Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2016 (2016-379) (NSW)

New South Wales

Water Sharing Plan for the Snowy Genoa Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2016

under the

Water Management Act 2000

|, Niall Blair, the Minister for Lands and Water, in pursuance of section 50 of the Water Management Act 2000, do, by this Order, make the following Ministers Plan for the Snowy Genoa Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources.

Dated this 29th day of June 2016.

NIALL BLAIR, MLC 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 Snowy Genoa Unregulated and

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

Published LW 1 July 2016 (2016 No 379)

Water Sharing Plan for the Snowy Genoa Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2016

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