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Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

Watercare Services Limited - Related amendments to LGA2002

102: Section 130 amended (Obligation to maintain water services)

You could also call this:

"Changing the rules for looking after water services in your community"

The law says you have to look at a part of the Local Government Act 2002, which is about water services. You need to change the heading of section 130 to include the words "water services: general". This change helps explain what the section is about.

When you read section 130, you will see some new words added after a certain part. These new words explain what a "local government organisation" means in this section. You can find the meaning of "local government organisation" in section 124, but there are some exceptions.

A "local government organisation" includes Auckland Council, but only when it provides certain water services in Auckland. It does not include Watercare, which is a different organisation. You can find more information about what "water supply and wastewater services" mean in another law, the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009.

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Part 4Watercare Services Limited
Related amendments to LGA2002

102Section 130 amended (Obligation to maintain water services)

  1. In the heading to section 130, after water services, insert : general.

  2. After section 130(4), insert:

  3. In this section, local government organisation has the meaning given in section 124, except it—

  4. includes Auckland Council only in relation to its provision of water services in Auckland that are not water supply and wastewater services; and
    1. excludes Watercare.

      1. For the purpose of subsection (5)(a), water supply and wastewater services has the same meaning as in section 4(1) of the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009.