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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Planning, reporting, and financial management - Planning - Water services strategy

230: Water services strategy

You could also call this:

"Plan for managing water services"

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If you are a water service provider, you must prepare a water services strategy that follows the rules in this Part. You must also have a water services strategy in place at all times. This means you need to have a plan for how you will manage your water services.

You have to adopt your water services strategy before the start of the first financial year it covers. When you adopt a water services strategy, it comes into force on the first day of the first financial year it relates to. It stays in force until the end of the third consecutive financial year it relates to.

Your water services strategy must cover a period of at least 10 consecutive financial years, or a different period that is specified in this Part or in the Schedule 3. If you are a water organisation, you prepare and adopt your own water services strategy. If you are a territorial authority, you prepare and adopt your water services strategy by making a resolution.

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Planning: Water services strategy

230Water services strategy

  1. A water service provider must—

  2. prepare a water services strategy in accordance with this Part; and
    1. have a water services strategy in place at all times.

      1. A water service provider must adopt its water services strategy before the start of the first financial year to which the strategy relates.

      2. A water services strategy—

      3. comes into force on the first day of the first financial year to which the water services strategy relates; and
        1. continues in force until the end of the third consecutive financial year to which it relates; and
          1. must relate to a period of at least 10 consecutive financial years or such other period as is specified in this Part or Schedule 3.

            1. A water services strategy must be prepared and adopted,—

            2. in the case of a water service provider that is a water organisation, by the water organisation; or
              1. in the case of a water service provider that is a territorial authority, by resolution of the territorial authority.