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Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

Alternative requirements and additional powers - Preliminary provisions

58: Purposes of this Part

You could also call this:

"What this part of the law is trying to achieve for water services in your community"

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This part of the law is about what it is trying to achieve. You will see it sets out rules for territorial authorities when they are making decisions about water services. These rules are different from some of the rules in the Local Government Act 2002.

The law wants to help territorial authorities make decisions about water services in a flexible way. You can find more information about this flexibility in sections 65 to 68. This flexibility is about water services council-controlled organisations and joint local government arrangements.

The law also talks about when territorial authorities must follow certain rules when making decisions about water services. You can find more information about joint local government arrangements in section 137 of the Local Government Act 2002. This is to help territorial authorities make good decisions about water services.

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Part 3Alternative requirements and additional powers
Preliminary provisions

58Purposes of this Part

  1. The purposes of this Part are—

  2. to set out consultation and decision-making requirements, in place of certain consultation and decision-making requirements set out in the LGA2002 (the alternative requirements), that territorial authorities—
    1. may use when establishing, joining, or amending—
      1. a water services council-controlled organisation (or are deciding whether or not to do so); or
        1. a joint water service provider arrangement under section 26 of the Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025 (or are deciding whether or not to do so); and
        2. must use when consulting or making decisions in relation to an anticipated or proposed model or arrangement for delivering water services; and
          1. must use if they decide to consult on a part of a water services delivery plan other than a model or arrangement described in subparagraph (ii); and
          2. to give territorial authorities greater flexibility in relation to WSCCOs, water services delivery plans, and joint local government arrangements by setting out additional powers to, or exemptions from, specific provisions in the LGA2002 (see sections 65 to 68).

            Notes
            • Section 58(a)(i)(B): amended, on , by section 172 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).