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Commerce Act 1986

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57ZN: Court may grant injunctions for contravention of Commission service quality code

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"Courts can stop you if you break service quality rules"

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If you break a Commission service quality code, a court can stop you. The court can do this if the Commission or someone else asks them to. The court can tell you to stop doing something that breaks the code.

If you refuse or fail to do something you are supposed to do, the court can tell you to do it. This can happen if not doing the thing is against the code or an information disclosure requirement. You might have to do the thing if you are proposing to refuse or fail to do it.

You can find more information about this in the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 or check the latest version of the Act for updates.

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Part 4AConsumer protection in relation to water services
Other measures relating to protecting consumers of water services: Compliance

57ZNCourt may grant injunctions for contravention of Commission service quality code

  1. The court may, on application by the Commission or any other person, grant an injunction—

  2. restraining a person from engaging in conduct that constitutes or would constitute a contravention, an attempted contravention, or involvement in a contravention of a Commission service quality code; or
    1. requiring a person to do a thing if—
      1. that person has refused or failed, is refusing or failing, or is proposing to refuse or fail, to do that thing; and
        1. the refusal or failure was, is, or would be a contravention of an information disclosure requirement or a Commission service quality code.

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        • Section 57ZN: inserted, on , by section 15 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).