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Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements - Foundational information disclosure requirements - Determinations

47: Charge for providing copies to public

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"Paying for copies of information from the council"

If you ask a specified entity for copies of statements and information, they might charge you for them. This can happen if the entity is required to provide these copies to the public because of a determination made under section 42. The entity can only charge you as much as it costs them to provide the copies.

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Part 2Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements
Foundational information disclosure requirements: Determinations

47Charge for providing copies to public

  1. A specified entity that is required, by a determination made under section 42, to provide copies of statements and information to the public on request may charge for providing those copies.

  2. The charge must be no more than is reasonably required to recover the costs of providing those copies.

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