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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Planning, reporting, and financial management - Additional requirements for water organisations - Additional management requirements

249: Additional plans or reports: water organisation

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"Asking a water organisation for extra plans or reports as a shareholder"

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If you are a shareholder of a water organisation, you can ask the organisation to prepare extra plans or reports. You do this by sending them a written notice. The notice can ask for things like a thematic plan, an asset management plan, or quarterly reports. You can include this notice in a statement of expectations, which is explained in section 224. When a water organisation gets a written notice, it must provide the extra plan or report to you.

The written notice you send must say when the plan or report is due and what it should cover. It might also need to say how long the plan or report should cover and when the water organisation should report back on its progress. If you ask for quarterly reports, the water organisation must give them to you within two months after the end of the first and third quarters of the financial year.

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Part 4Planning, reporting, and financial management
Additional requirements for water organisations: Additional management requirements

249Additional plans or reports: water organisation

  1. The shareholders of a water organisation may require, by written notice, the water organisation to prepare additional plans or reports, including—

  2. 1 or more thematic plans:
    1. an asset management plan:
      1. quarterly reports.

        1. The written notice may be included in the shareholders’ statement of expectations provided to the water organisation (see section 224).

        2. A water organisation that receives a written notice must provide the additional plan or report to the shareholders in accordance with the written notice.

        3. The written notice must specify—

        4. the date by which the water organisation must provide the plan or report to the shareholders; and
          1. the matters to be addressed in the plan or report; and
            1. if relevant to the particular plan or report,—
              1. the period that the plan or report must cover; and
                1. when the water organisation must report to shareholders on its progress against a plan.

                2. If the shareholders require a water organisation to prepare quarterly reports, the water organisation must provide the quarterly reports no later than 2 months after the end of the first and third quarters of the relevant financial year.