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Water Services Act 2021

Standards, enforcement, and other matters - National Engineering Design Standards (NEDS) for water services networks - Warnings

97T: Effect of warning

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"What happens if you get a warning as a water service provider"

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If you are a water service provider, you must think about any relevant warnings when you take actions or make decisions that involve sections 97K to 97O. You have to consider these warnings before you act. If you do something despite a warning, you must tell the chief executive how you thought about the warning beforehand.

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Part 3Standards, enforcement, and other matters
National Engineering Design Standards (NEDS) for water services networks: Warnings

97TEffect of warning

  1. A water service provider must take any relevant warning into account when taking actions or making decisions to which any of sections 97K to 97O apply.

  2. A water service provider that takes an action or makes a decision referred to in subsection (1) despite an applicable warning must notify the chief executive of how the provider took the warning into account beforehand.

Notes
  • Section 97T: inserted, on , by section 146 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).