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Water Services Act 2021

Standards, enforcement, and other matters - Enforceable undertakings

132: When enforceable undertaking is enforceable

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"When a promise to fix a problem becomes legally binding"

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An enforceable undertaking takes effect when the chief executive decides to accept it. You get told about this decision, and it becomes enforceable then or at a later date. The chief executive chooses this later date.

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Part 3Standards, enforcement, and other matters
Enforceable undertakings

132When enforceable undertaking is enforceable

  1. An enforceable undertaking takes effect and becomes enforceable when the chief executive's decision to accept the undertaking is given to the person who made the undertaking, or at any later date specified by the chief executive.

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