Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Structural arrangements for providing water services - Responsibility for providing water services - Territorial authority’s responsibility

11: Exception: transport corridors

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"Councils in charge of roads must control stormwater systems on those roads."

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If you are a territorial authority that also manages roads, this section applies to you. You must make sure that any agreements or contracts you have do not give away your control of stormwater infrastructure on transport corridors. This infrastructure includes things like drains and systems that collect and dispose of stormwater on roads that you manage, as referred to in section 10(1).

You have to keep ownership and control of this infrastructure. This is because it is part of the transport corridor and is used to manage stormwater.

As a territorial authority, you are responsible for making sure this happens, and you cannot transfer this responsibility to someone else through an agreement or contract.

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This page was last updated on 31 August 2025

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"How councils make sure you get water services like drinking water and sewage removal."

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"Agreeing to pass on water service responsibilities to a water organisation"

Part 2Structural arrangements for providing water services
Responsibility for providing water services: Territorial authority’s responsibility

11Exception: transport corridors

This section applies to a territorial authority that is also a corridor manager in relation to 1 or more roads in its district.
The territorial authority must ensure that any agreement, contract, or arrangement referred to in section 10(1) does not transfer to any person or body the authority’s ownership or control of any transport corridor stormwater infrastructure.
In this section, transport corridor stormwater infrastructure means infrastructure that—
relates to the transport function of a transport corridor managed by the territorial authority; and
is used to collect, treat, drain, reuse, or discharge stormwater.