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Part 2Provisions relating to supply of drinking water
Standards, rules, directions, and other instruments

47Power to make drinking water standards

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, and following consultation undertaken in accordance with section 53, make regulations to set standards (drinking water standards) that relate to either or both of the following:

  2. drinking water composition:
    1. outcomes of the treatment of drinking water.

      1. Drinking water standards may, without limitation, specify or provide for—

      2. minimum or maximum amounts of substances that may be present in drinking water; and
        1. minimum or maximum acceptable values for chemical, radiological, microbiological, and other characteristics of drinking water.

          1. Drinking water standards must not include any requirement that fluoride be added to drinking water.

          2. Regulations made under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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