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Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

Alternative requirements and additional powers - Additional powers and exemption

65: Ability to consider joint service area

You could also call this:

"Considering a shared water services area for your community"

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When you are deciding whether to set up, join, or change a joint water services group, you can think about the area that will be served by this group. You can consider how the joint group will affect the people living in this area, as well as the people in your own district. You can also think about what people in the joint service area and your own district want. Additionally, you can consider the views of other local councils that are already part of the joint group, or that might join it, as stated in section 137 of the LGA2002, even if this means you do something that sections 12(4) and 14(1)(g) of the LGA2002 do not normally allow. You are allowed to do this when making your decision. This helps you make a decision that works for everyone involved.

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Part 3Alternative requirements and additional powers
Additional powers and exemption

65Ability to consider joint service area

  1. When deciding whether or not to establish, join, or amend a joint WSCCO, a joint arrangement, or a joint water service provider arrangement under section 26 of the Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025, a territorial authority may, despite sections 12(4) and 14(1)(g) of the LGA2002, also consider—

  2. the impact of the joint WSCCO, the joint arrangement, or the joint local government arrangement on the communities in the joint service area (as well as the impact on the authority’s district); and
    1. the views of people in communities in the joint service area (as well as the views of people in the authority’s communities); and
      1. the views of the other territorial authorities who are—
        1. parties to the joint WSCCO, the joint arrangement, or the joint local government arrangement; or
          1. considering whether to become parties to the joint WSCCO, the joint arrangement, or the joint local government arrangement.

          Notes
          • Section 65: amended, on , by section 172 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).