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Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements - Ministerial powers in relation to water services delivery plans - General provisions

33: Obligation to co-operate

You could also call this:

"You must work with and help the person the minister appoints to work with you."

When a ministerial appointee is appointed to you or your group, you must co-operate with them as soon as possible. You have to work with the ministerial appointee and do what they ask if it is reasonable. This includes giving them any relevant information you have when they ask for it, and following any reasonable directions they give you.

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Ministerial powers in relation to water services delivery plans: General provisions

33Obligation to co-operate

  1. A territorial authority or a group of territorial authorities to which a ministerial appointee has been appointed must, as soon as reasonably practicable,—

  2. co-operate with the ministerial appointee; and
    1. comply with any reasonable request from the ministerial appointee to provide any relevant information that the territorial authority or the group of territorial authorities holds; and
      1. comply with any reasonable direction issued by the ministerial appointee.