Part 5Amendments to Water Services Act 2021 and consequential amendments
Amendments to Water Services Act 2021
115Section 138 amended (Wastewater environmental performance standards)
After section 138(3), insert:
When making wastewater environmental performance standards under this section, Taumata Arowai must not have regard to the hierarchy of obligations in clause 1.3(5) of the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management.
Subsection (3A) applies despite any other provision of this Act.