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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Planning, reporting, and financial management

219: Responsibilities under this Part

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You have to prepare and adopt some important documents if you are a water service provider. These documents are a water services strategy, a water services annual budget, and a water services annual report. You have to do this if you are a territorial authority that provides water services.

You are responsible for these documents if you provide water services directly, through a contract, or through another type of arrangement, such as the one described in section 10(1)(f). If you are a water organisation, you are responsible for these documents in relation to the water services you provide. This includes water services you provide under a transfer agreement, or responsibilities for water supply and wastewater services as defined in section 4(1) of the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009.

However, if you are a territorial authority that only provides a small part of a water service that is not connected to a bigger network, you do not have to prepare these documents for that small part. But you still have to include information about that small part in your other planning documents, as described in Part 6 of the LGA 2002. A small part of a water service can include things like wastewater services for a campground, or a water supply for a few rural homes.

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219Responsibilities under this Part

  1. The following water service providers are responsible for preparing and adopting a water services strategy, a water services annual budget, and a water services annual report:

  2. a water service provider that is a territorial authority, but only in relation to the water services that the territorial authority provides—
    1. directly; or
      1. through a contract with a third party; or
        1. through a joint water service provider arrangement; or
          1. through another type of arrangement under section 10(1)(f):
          2. a water organisation, in relation to,—
            1. in the case of water organisations other than an Auckland water organisation, the water services that it provides under a transfer agreement; or
              1. in the case of an Auckland water organisation,—
                1. its responsibilities for water supply and wastewater services, as defined in section 4(1) of the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009, in Auckland; and
                  1. any other water services, if Auckland Council transfers responsibilities to an Auckland water organisation using a transfer agreement under section 12 or 15 of this Act.

                2. However, a territorial authority that is responsible for providing only a minor aspect of a water service that is not connected to a water supply network, wastewater network, or stormwater network that is provided by another water service provider—

                3. need not prepare and adopt a water services strategy, a water services annual budget, or a water services annual report in respect of the minor aspect of the water service; but
                  1. if it does not prepare and adopt all of those documents under this Part, must include information relevant to the minor aspect of the water service in its planning and reporting documents prepared under Part 6 of the LGA 2002, with appropriate modifications to reflect the minor nature of the aspect of the water service that it provides.

                    1. For the purposes of subsection (2), examples of a minor aspect of a water service include—

                    2. wastewater services for a community facility, such as a campground, that is not connected to a wastewater network; and
                      1. a water supply for a small number of rural homes that are not connected to a water supply network.