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Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements - Water services delivery plans - Water services delivery plan: preparation and contents

8: Territorial authority must prepare water services delivery plan

You could also call this:

"Councils must create a plan to manage their local water services properly."

You need to know what a territorial authority is. It is a local council that looks after an area. Each territorial authority must make a plan for its water services. This plan must show what the current state of the water services is. You will see the plan shows the authority's commitment to delivering water services in a certain way. This way must meet quality standards and be good for the authority's finances.

The plan must also meet drinking water quality standards and support housing growth. The authority must make this plan and have it accepted, but it only needs to do this once. However, you can check section 23 to see when the plan might need to be changed. There is also something important to note, which is affected by section 10(3).

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Water services delivery plans: Water services delivery plan: preparation and contents

8Territorial authority must prepare water services delivery plan

  1. Each territorial authority must prepare a water services delivery plan that—

  2. identifies the current state of the authority’s water services; and
    1. demonstrates publicly its commitment to deliver water services in a way that—
      1. ensures that the territorial authority will meet all relevant regulatory quality standards for its water services; and
        1. is financially sustainable for the territorial authority; and
          1. ensures that the territorial authority will meet all drinking water quality standards; and
            1. supports the territorial authority’s housing growth and urban development, as specified in the territorial authority’s long-term plan.

            2. Subsection (1) is subject to section 10(3).

            3. To avoid doubt, this Act requires each territorial authority to prepare and have accepted a water services delivery plan only once (however, see section 23 for the circumstances in which a water services delivery plan may be amended).