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Commerce Act 1986

Regulated goods or services - Water services - Commission may recommend further regulation or deregulation

57G: Commission may recommend further regulation or deregulation

You could also call this:

"The Commission can suggest changes to rules for water services"

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The Commission can tell the Minister if they think some services should have more or less regulation. You might be wondering what services they are talking about - they are water supply, wastewater, and stormwater services. The Commission can recommend regulation on things like information, revenue, quality, and prices.

The Commission's recommendation about information or revenue regulation does not apply to some suppliers, as stated in section 57D(1). When the Commission makes a recommendation, the Minister must make it public. The Minister can choose how to share the recommendation with you and others.

A recommendation from the Commission is not the same as a final decision. The Minister will look at the Commission's recommendation and decide what to do next. You can think of the Commission's recommendation as a suggestion to the Minister.

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Part 4Regulated goods or services
Water services: Commission may recommend further regulation or deregulation

57GCommission may recommend further regulation or deregulation

  1. The Commission may recommend to the Minister that regulation should be imposed (or removed) as follows in respect of 1 or more suppliers:

  2. water supply services, wastewater services, or both, should (or should no longer) be subject to 1 or more of the following types of regulation:
    1. information disclosure regulation (but see subsection (2)):
      1. revenue threshold regulation (but see subsection (2)):
        1. quality regulation:
          1. performance requirement regulation:
            1. price-quality regulation:
            2. stormwater services should (or should no longer) be subject to 1 or more of the following types of regulation:
              1. information disclosure regulation:
                1. revenue threshold regulation:
                  1. quality regulation:
                    1. performance requirement regulation:
                      1. price-quality regulation.

                      2. A recommendation for the purposes of subsection (1)(a)(i) or (ii) in respect of a water service must not apply to a person that is, in respect of that service, a regulated supplier to which section 57D(1) applies.

                      3. The Minister must publish the Commission’s recommendation, and may do so in whatever way the Minister considers appropriate.

                      4. A recommendation by the Commission is not a determination of the Commission.

                      Notes
                      • Section 57G: inserted, on , by section 14 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).