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Water Services Act 2021

Preliminary provisions - Interpretation - Key terms

8: Meaning of drinking water supplier

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In the Water Services Act 2021, a drinking water supplier is a person who gives people drinking water. You are a drinking water supplier if you own or operate a system that provides drinking water. This includes people who supply drinking water to other suppliers, but it does not include people who collect their own drinking water or those who share drinking water with others in their home.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions
Interpretation: Key terms

8Meaning of drinking water supplier

  1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, drinking water supplier—

  2. means a person who supplies drinking water through a drinking water supply; and
    1. includes a person who ought reasonably to know that the water they are supplying is or will be used as drinking water; and
      1. includes the owner and the operator of a drinking water supply; and
        1. includes a person described in paragraph (a), (b), or (c) who supplies drinking water to another drinking water supplier; but
          1. does not include a domestic self-supplier or a shared domestic supplier.

            Notes
            • Section 8(e): amended, on , by section 122 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).