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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Structural arrangements for providing water services - Responsibility for providing water services - Joint arrangements for providing water services

26: Joint water service provider arrangements

You could also call this:

"Working together with other water service providers to deliver water services"

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When you are a water service provider, you can work together with other providers to deliver water services. You can even work with providers from outside your area. You need to think about whether working together will have a big impact on your services. If it will have a big impact, you must talk to the people who will be affected and follow certain steps, like those outlined in sections 30 to 32, before making a decision.

If you are a water organisation, you also need to talk to your shareholders and get their approval before making a decision. You must have a plan that says how you will decide if working together with other providers will have a big impact. Your plan must also say how you will talk to people about your decisions, in a way that is consistent with sections 31 and 32.

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Part 2Structural arrangements for providing water services
Responsibility for providing water services: Joint arrangements for providing water services

26Joint water service provider arrangements

  1. A water service provider may enter into a joint water service provider arrangement with 1 or more other water service providers, including providers operating outside the service area in which the first provider operates.

  2. When considering and negotiating a joint water service provider arrangement, a water service provider must determine whether the proposed arrangement is a significant joint water service provider arrangement under the provider’s significance and engagement policy.

  3. Before entering into a proposed arrangement that a water service provider determines to be a significant joint water service provider arrangement, the provider must—

  4. undertake options assessment and consultation in accordance with sections 30 to 32; and
    1. if it is a water organisation, also consult its shareholders and obtain their approval of the proposed arrangement.

      1. The provider must ensure that its significance and engagement policy addresses all matters necessary for determining—

      2. whether a proposed joint water service provider arrangement is a significant joint water service provider arrangement; and
        1. how to undertake engagement in relation to a proposed significant joint water service provider arrangement in a way that is consistent with sections 31 and 32.

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