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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Provision of water services: operational matters - Charges for water services - Sharing information

105: Information needed by water organisation

You could also call this:

"Water organisations can ask councils for information to help bill their customers."

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If you are a water organisation, you can ask a territorial authority for information they hold, including information in their rating database. You need this information to charge your account holders, and you must provide water services to them in the authority's district. The authority must give you the information you need if you ask for it.

The territorial authority must give you the information as soon as they can after you ask for it. They can charge you for the information, but only what it reasonably costs them to prepare and maintain their rating database.

You must provide water services to account holders in the authority's district to get the information you need from the territorial authority.

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Charges for water services: Sharing information

105Information needed by water organisation

  1. A territorial authority must give a water organisation any information that the authority holds, including information in the authority’s rating information database, and that the water organisation reasonably needs to charge its account holders, if the water organisation—

  2. requests the information; and
    1. provides water services to account holders in the authority’s district.

      1. The territorial authority must provide the information—

      2. as soon as is reasonably practicable after receiving the request from the water organisation; and
        1. on a reasonable cost basis, which may include the authority’s costs of preparing and maintaining the rating information database.