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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Miscellaneous provisions - Compliance and enforcement - Power to obtain information

295: Power to ask for assistance

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"Compliance officers can ask for help to do their job, but must supervise the helper."

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If you are a compliance officer, you can ask someone for help to do your job under the Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025. You can ask for help if you think it's necessary, but you can't ask for help to enter a place. If the person agrees to help you, they must do what you tell them to do and you must supervise them. The person who is helping you can go with you into any place you are allowed to enter. You can look at s 388 for more information about this.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Compliance and enforcement: Power to obtain information

295Power to ask for assistance

  1. A compliance officer who considers it necessary to do so may ask a person for assistance in performing their functions or exercising their powers (other than exercising a power of entry) under this Act.

  2. If the person agrees to assist, they—

  3. must act under the supervision of, and as instructed by, the officer; and
    1. may accompany the officer into any place that the officer enters.

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