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

12: Water services to be covered by water services delivery plan

You could also call this:

"What water services are included in your area's water plan"

When you look at a water services delivery plan, it must cover all water services. This means the plan talks about everything to do with water services in your area. You can expect the plan to have information about all the water services.

If some councils work together to make a joint plan, it must cover all water services for those councils, even if one of them does not include its stormwater network in the joint arrangement. This is so you can see how all the water services are being managed in your area. The plan will have information about all the water services, including stormwater networks.

There is one exception, and that is for the Auckland Council. Their water services delivery plan does not need to include information about their water supply network or wastewater network. This means the Auckland Council's plan might look a bit different from other councils' plans.

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11: Extent of joint arrangement, or

"What water services can be shared between local councils in a joint arrangement"

13: Contents of water services delivery plan, or

"What a water services delivery plan must include"

Part 2Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements
Water services delivery plans: Water services delivery plan: preparation and contents

12Water services to be covered by water services delivery plan

A water services delivery plan must relate to all water services.
To avoid doubt, if a joint arrangement relates to the delivery of all water services except some or all of those relating to 1 or more of the authorities’ stormwater networks, the joint plan must relate to the delivery of all water services in the joint service area.

Example

Territorial authorities A, B, and C join together to form a joint arrangement. The joint arrangement relates to the delivery of all water services for territorial authorities A and B, but territorial authority C joins the joint arrangement in relation to water services other than those services relating to its stormwater network. The joint plan must contain the required information in relation to all water services for all 3 territorial authorities, including information about territorial authority C’s delivery of services relating to its stormwater network.
Despite subsection (1), the water services delivery plan for the Auckland Council need not relate to water services that relate to its water supply network or its wastewater network.