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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Miscellaneous provisions - Compliance and enforcement - Compliance orders

298: Compliance with compliance order

You could also call this:

"Following the rules of a compliance order"

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If a compliance order is served on you, you must follow it. You have to comply with the order within the time frame it says. You also have to pay the costs of following the order, unless it says you do not have to. You can find more information about this by looking at the related legislation.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Compliance and enforcement: Compliance orders

298Compliance with compliance order

  1. A person on whom a compliance order is served must—

  2. comply with the order within the period specified in it; and
    1. unless the order directs otherwise, pay all the costs and expenses of complying with it.

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