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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Provision of water services: operational matters - Development contributions

115: Information sharing for development contributions

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"Water organisations and councils must share information to help pay for new water services."

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When a water organisation has a development contributions policy, you need to know how they share information. This can happen in two ways: the water organisation can adopt its own policy under section 119, or a territorial authority's policy can be extended to cover the water organisation under section 128.

If this happens, the water organisation and the territorial authority must share information with each other when asked. They share information to help recover development contributions, like details about water services infrastructure or consent applications.

The party that receives a request for information must provide it as soon as possible and at a reasonable cost.

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Part 3Provision of water services: operational matters
Development contributions

115Information sharing for development contributions

  1. This section applies if—

  2. a water organisation adopts a development contributions policy under section 119; or
    1. the development contributions policy of a territorial authority is extended to cover a water organisation under section 128.

      1. The water organisation and each territorial authority in whose district the organisation operates must, on receipt of a request from the other party, provide the information that the other party requires for the purposes of recovering development contributions (for example, the territorial authority may request that the water organisation provide information relating to water services infrastructure that the water organisation builds, or the water organisation may request that the territorial authority provide information relating to consent applications).

      2. A party that receives a request for information under subsection (2) must provide the information—

      3. as soon as is reasonably practicable after receiving the request; and
        1. on a reasonable cost basis.