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Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

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16: Secretary may make rules in relation to water services delivery plans

You could also call this:

"The government can make rules about planning for water services to help communities."

The Secretary can make rules about water services delivery plans. You might wonder what these rules are for. They can specify what extra information must be in a plan and how that information is presented.

The Secretary can make rules that help a territorial authority be more accountable to its community. These rules can also provide a basis for regulating water services. You might be interested in what kind of information these rules can require, such as financial matters, assets involved in delivering water services, and performance measures.

Before making a rule, the Secretary must talk to people or organisations that have views on the matter. The Secretary cannot make rules after a certain date, which is three months after this section comes into force. If you want to know more about how these rules work, you can look at the Legislation Act 2019, specifically Part 3 for publication requirements.

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

16Secretary may make rules in relation to water services delivery plans

  1. The Secretary may make rules for 1 or more of the following purposes relating to water services delivery plans:

  2. specifying additional information that must be included in a plan:
    1. specifying the manner and form in which information must be included in a plan.

      1. Without limiting subsection (1)(a), a rule made under subsection (1)(a) may require the inclusion of information that—

      2. improves accountability to a territorial authority’s community:
        1. provides a basis for regulating the delivery of water services:
          1. relates to 1 or more of the following:
            1. financial matters (including, for example, revenues, equity levels, debt arrangements, and expenses):
              1. the assets involved in delivering water services (including, for example, asset management plans and asset replacement policies):
                1. financial and non-financial performance measures:
                  1. the relevant performance measures and statistics relating to water quality:
                    1. pricing practices, assumptions, policies, and methodologies used in delivering water services.

                    2. Before making a rule, the Secretary must consult each person or organisation that the Secretary considers to hold views that are representative of the views held, or that may be held, in the local government sector.

                    3. A rule is not invalid only because the consultation required under subsection (3) occurred before this Act came into force.

                    4. Rules made under this section must not be made, or come into force, later than the date (the relevant date) that is 3 months after the date on which this section comes into force.

                    5. Rules made under this section, and in force on the relevant date,—

                    6. continue in force after the relevant date; but
                      1. cannot be amended, revoked, or replaced by further rules made under this section after the relevant date.

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