32Water Services Authority to review drinking water safety plans and monitor compliance

1. The Water Services Authority must perform the following functions in accordance with the compliance, monitoring, and enforcement strategy:

2. review drinking water safety plans, including for compliance with legislative requirements:
3. monitor compliance with drinking water safety plans by drinking water suppliers:
4. monitor compliance with source water risk management plans, including any undertakings made by third parties to the plan, by drinking water suppliers:
5. monitor compliance with other legislative requirements, including (for example) acceptable solutions or verification methods, by drinking water suppliers:
6. establish ongoing monitoring and review arrangements to ensure that drinking water suppliers—
   1. appropriately identify and assess risks and hazards that relate to drinking water supplies; and
   2. make changes, if necessary, to drinking water safety plans to reflect changes in the risks and hazards.

7. The Water Services Authority must have regard to the scale, complexity, and risk profile of drinking water supplies when performing the functions in subsection (1).

8. For the purposes of performing its functions under subsection (1), the Water Services Authority may issue a written notice to a drinking water supplier requiring the supplier to provide the Water Services Authority with one or both of the following types of information:

9. a written statement as to whether the drinking water supplier has complied with a particular legislative requirement:
10. information that will enable the Water Services Authority to determine whether a particular legislative requirement has been complied with.

11. In addition to the information specified in subsection (3), the Water Services Authority may require the drinking water supplier to provide a certificate to confirm that the information provided under this section is accurate and complete.

12. A certificate under subsection (4) must—

13. be in the form specified by the Water Services Authority; and
14. be signed by—
    1. the drinking water supplier’s chief executive; or
    2. at least 1 board member or director of the drinking water supplier; or
    3. if the drinking water supplier has no board or director, a person occupying a position that is comparable to a board member or director.

15. The Water Services Authority may issue a written notice under subsection (3) only to a drinking water supplier that is—

16. a territorial authority; or
17. a water organisation; or
18. a government department; or
19. the New Zealand Defence Force.