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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 - Submission of water services delivery plan

18: Plan must be submitted to Secretary for acceptance

You could also call this:

"Send your water plan to the Secretary for approval within a year"

You need to submit your water services delivery plan to the Secretary. You must do this no later than 1 year after this section starts, or by a later date the Minister sets under section 19.

When you submit your plan, it must include a certification that the plan follows this Act and the information in it is true and accurate.

The certification must be made by the chief executive of your authority, or by the chief executives of each authority if you have a joint plan, saying the information they provided is correct.

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Part 2Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements
Water services delivery plans: Submission of water services delivery plan

18Plan must be submitted to Secretary for acceptance

  1. A territorial authority or a group of 2 or more territorial authorities (as the case may be) must submit its water services delivery plan to the Secretary—

  2. no later than 1 year after the date on which this section comes into force; or
    1. on or before a later date specified by the Minister under section 19.

      1. Each water services delivery plan that is submitted to the Secretary for acceptance must include a certification that—

      2. the plan complies with this Act; and
        1. the information contained in the plan is true and accurate.

          1. The certification must be made,—

          2. in the case of a joint water services delivery plan, by the chief executive of each authority to which the plan relates, in respect of the information provided by that authority; and
            1. in any other case, by the chief executive of the territorial authority to which the plan relates.