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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Miscellaneous provisions - Compliance and enforcement - Compliance officers

278: Compliance officers

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A territorial authority or a water organisation can appoint someone as a compliance officer by giving them a written notice. You can be appointed as a compliance officer if you are an employee of the territorial authority or water organisation. Alternatively, you can be appointed if the territorial authority or water organisation thinks you are suitably qualified and trained for the role.

The notice that appoints you as a compliance officer can include conditions or limitations on what you can do. If you are a compliance officer, you have to follow these conditions when you are exercising your compliance powers.

If a compliance officer does not follow the conditions in their notice of appointment, what they do is still valid, as long as they are using their compliance powers. You can find more information about this by looking at the relevant legislation.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Compliance and enforcement: Compliance officers

278Compliance officers

  1. A territorial authority or a water organisation may, by notice in writing, appoint the following as a compliance officer:

  2. an employee of the territorial authority or water organisation:
    1. any other person who the territorial authority or water organisation is satisfied—
      1. is suitably qualified and trained; or
        1. belongs to a class of persons who are suitably qualified and trained to perform or exercise all or any of the functions, duties, and powers of a compliance officer.

        2. A compliance officer’s compliance powers are subject to any conditions or limitations specified in the notice of the officer’s appointment.

        3. However, the exercise of a compliance power by a compliance officer is not invalid merely because it did not comply with the conditions specified in their notice of appointment.

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