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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Structural arrangements for providing water services - Water organisations - Governance of water organisations: consumer trusts

63: Ministerial powers

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"The Minister has special powers to help or get involved with water services trusts."

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The Minister has powers to help trustees and get involved in their affairs. You can find these powers in Part 10 of the LGA 2002. When the Minister uses these powers, they treat a consumer trust like a local authority, making any necessary changes to make it work.

The Minister can use these powers to assist trustees or intervene in their affairs. This means the Minister can use the rules in Part 10 of the LGA 2002 to help or get involved. The rules are applied in a way that makes sense for a consumer trust, even though they were written for local authorities.

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Water organisations: Governance of water organisations: consumer trusts

63Ministerial powers

  1. The Minister may use their powers under Part 10 of the LGA 2002 to assist trustees and to intervene in the affairs of trustees.

  2. For the purposes of this section, Part 10 of the LGA 2002 must be read as applying, with any necessary modifications, to a consumer trust as if it were a local authority.