Part 2Structural arrangements for providing water services
Water organisations: Governance of water organisations: consumer trusts
49Purposes of sections 50 to 63
The purposes of sections 50 to 63 are to—
- enable territorial authorities to establish consumer trusts—
- whose trustees will own, or co-own, a water organisation on behalf of consumers; and
- whose trustees will act in the interests of all of the water organisation’s consumers; and
- whose trustees will own, or co-own, a water organisation on behalf of consumers; and
- enable consumers to elect trustees to those consumer trusts.