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Water Services Act 2021

Standards, enforcement, and other matters - Powers of compliance officers - Power to obtain information

118: Power to ask for assistance

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"When can you be asked to help a water compliance officer with their job?"

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You can be asked to help a compliance officer do their job under the Water Services Act 2021. A compliance officer can ask you for assistance if they think it's necessary. They can ask for your help to perform their functions or duties. You might agree to help a compliance officer. If you do, you must follow their instructions and supervision. You can also go with the officer into a place they are allowed to enter. The compliance officer's power to ask for assistance is similar to a power in the 2014 No 32 legislation. You are agreeing to help and the officer is in charge.

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Part 3Standards, enforcement, and other matters
Powers of compliance officers: Power to obtain information

118Power to ask for assistance

  1. A compliance officer who considers it necessary to do so may ask a person for assistance in performing the officer’s functions or duties, or exercising the officer’s powers (other than exercising a power of entry), under this Act.

  2. If the person agrees to assist, they—

  3. must act under the supervision of, and as instructed by, the officer; and
    1. may accompany the officer into any place that the officer enters.

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