Part 2Structural arrangements for providing water services
Responsibility for providing water services: Contracting for providing water services
25Third party to give information to water service provider on request
This section applies if a water service provider has entered into an agreement or arrangement of any kind with a person or body (the third party) for the third party to provide water services on behalf of the water service provider.
The water service provider may ask the third party for information relating to providing water services under the agreement or arrangement.
The information requested must be information that the water service provider needs in order to meet regulatory requirements relating to the water services covered by the agreement or arrangement.
The third party must provide the information requested as soon as is reasonably practicable.
However, the third party is not required to provide information that—
- is commercially sensitive; and
- could disadvantage the third party in future negotiations for entering into an agreement or arrangement with a water service provider.
The third party may recover from the provider the reasonable costs that the third party incurs in providing information requested under this section.