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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

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

107: Water organisation must provide charging information to territorial authorities

You could also call this:

"Water companies must tell their local council who they charged for water and how much."

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When you are part of a water organisation, you must give some information to your local council. You need to provide the information the council requires to work out who is entitled to a rebate under the Rates Rebate Act 1973. This information is about the people you have charged for water services and how much you charged them.

You must give this information in a timely manner that you and the council agree on. You also need to provide it on a reasonable cost basis. The information you give includes the names and addresses of the people you have charged, and the amounts you charged them for water services during the previous rating year.

The rating year is defined in the Rates Rebate Act 1973. The council you give the information to is the one that covers the area where your water organisation provides services. You must give the council the information they need to calculate rebates for the previous year.

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Part 3Provision of water services: operational matters
Charges for water services: Sharing information

107Water organisation must provide charging information to territorial authorities

  1. Each water organisation must give the relevant territorial authority the charging information from the water organisation’s records that the authority reasonably requires to calculate entitlements to rebates under the Rates Rebate Act 1973 for the previous rating year.

  2. A water organisation must give the information—

  3. in a timely manner that the water organisation and the territorial authority agree upon; and
    1. on a reasonable cost basis.

      1. In this section,—

        charging information includes (without limitation)—

        1. the names and addresses of the persons that the water organisation has charged for water services; and
          1. the amounts that the water organisation has charged those persons for water services during the previous rating year

            rating year has the meaning set out in section 2(1) of the Rates Rebate Act 1973

              relevant territorial authority means a territorial authority in whose district all or part of the water organisation’s service area is located.