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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Miscellaneous provisions - Compliance and enforcement - Compliance orders

300: Compliance order may be varied or cancelled

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"Someone can change or cancel a compliance order they gave you at any time."

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If you get a compliance order, the chief executive of the territorial authority or water organisation that gave it to you can change it or cancel it at any time. They have the power to amend or revoke the order. You can find similar information in the legislation from 2022.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Compliance and enforcement: Compliance orders

300Compliance order may be varied or cancelled

  1. A compliance order may be amended or revoked at any time by the chief executive of the territorial authority or water organisation that served it.

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