This part of the law is about helping land drainage schemes or water race schemes to be transferred to the people they serve, if that's what those people want. You might be one of the ratepayers who gets to decide what happens to the scheme. The law wants to make sure that when a scheme is transferred, it protects the interests of all the ratepayers who use it, as well as the public interest in how local authorities operate.

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517B: Interpretation, or

"What special words mean in this part of the law"

517D: Obligation of local authority to facilitate purposes, or

"Councils must help people transfer control of water schemes if that's what most users want."

Part 29ADivestment of land drainage schemes and water race schemes

517CPurposes of this Part

The purposes of this Part are—
to enable any land drainage scheme or water race scheme to be transferred to the ownership and responsibility of the ratepayers served by the scheme where that is the wish of those ratepayers; and
to ensure that the manner in which any such scheme is transferred protects—
1. the interests of all ratepayers served by the scheme; and
2. the public interest in the effective operation of this Act and other Acts by local authorities.

Notes

Section 517C: inserted, on 15 October 1999, by section 11 of the Local Government Amendment Act (No 5) 1999 (1999 No 125).