Part 3Provision of water services: operational matters
Trade waste discharges: Trade waste discharge plans
185Territorial authority must make trade waste discharge plan
A territorial authority must prepare and issue a trade waste discharge plan no later than 2 years after the date on which this section comes into force.
A territorial authority may delegate preparing, consulting on, and issuing the trade waste discharge plan to a water organisation that provides wastewater services in the territorial authority’s district.
A trade waste discharge plan must set out the approach that the territorial authority (and the water organisation, if applicable) will take to regulate—
- trade waste in its district; and
- the discharge of trade waste into wastewater networks in its district.
The trade waste discharge plan may,—
- if issued by a territorial authority, include proposals that the territorial authority make a trade waste bylaw; or
- if issued by a water organisation, include recommendations that the territorial authority make a trade waste bylaw.
The trade waste discharge plan must specify—
- the types of or specific premises to which the trade waste discharge plan applies; and
- any requirements or limits in relation to transporting trade waste; and
- any proposed or recommended trade waste bylaws that are necessary to implement the plan; and
- the circumstances in which the water service provider will impose any fees or charges in relation to trade waste, including when a penalty will be imposed for not complying with the trade waste discharge plan or a trade waste permit.
The trade waste discharge plan may—
- include conditions that the water service provider may impose on the discharge of trade waste into the wastewater network:
- include different requirements or provisions for different categories of trade waste premises:
- apply to 1 or more wastewater networks:
- specify any class of waste or material that is not to be trade waste for the purposes of this Act.