285: First assessment of water and sanitary services
You could also call this:
“Councils had to check their water and cleaning services for the first time by mid-2005”
You need to know about a rule for territorial authorities in New Zealand. A territorial authority is like a local council that looks after a specific area. The rule says that these authorities had to do something important by 30 June 2005. They had to check their water and sanitary services. Sanitary services are things that help keep people and places clean and healthy.
This check was not just a one-time thing. It was the first time they had to do it under a new rule called section 125. This section says that territorial authorities must regularly look at how well their water and sanitary services are working.
The government wanted all territorial authorities to finish this first check by a certain date. They chose 30 June 2005 as the deadline. This means that by that day, every territorial authority in New Zealand had to have finished looking at their water and sanitary services.
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Part 12
Consequential amendments, repeals, revocations, transitional
provisions, and savings
Transitional provisions
285First assessment of water and sanitary services
Every territorial authority must, not later than the close of
30 June 2005, make its first assessment under
section 125
(which imposes a requirement to assess water and sanitary
services).
