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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Miscellaneous provisions - Compliance and enforcement - Compliance orders

302: When chief executive may take remedial action

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"What happens if you don't follow a council order and the chief executive steps in"

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If you do not follow a compliance order, the chief executive of your local council or water organisation can take action. They can do things to make you comply with the order or to stop a serious risk from happening. The chief executive must tell you in writing that they plan to take action and that you will have to pay for the costs of that action.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Compliance and enforcement: Compliance orders

302When chief executive may take remedial action

  1. This section applies if a person fails to comply with the whole or any part of a compliance order that is issued to the person.

  2. The chief executive of the territorial authority or water organisation may take any remedial action they believe is reasonable to—

  3. ensure compliance by, or on behalf of, that person with a compliance requirement; or
    1. prevent, reduce, or eliminate a specified serious risk.

      1. However, the chief executive may only take action under subsection (2) after giving written notice to the person of—

      2. the chief executive’s intention to take that action; and
        1. the person’s liability for the costs of that action.

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