WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 556 Amending establishment regulation

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 556

556 Amending establishment regulation

(1) This section applies despite the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 24AA (b) .

(2) Before an establishment regulation for a water authority is amended, the chief executive must publish notice of the amendment—

(a) in the gazette; and

(b) in another way the chief executive considers appropriate having regard to the intended audience for the notice.

(3) The notice must state the following—

(a) the proposed amendment;

(b) that written submissions on the proposed amendment may be made to the chief executive;

(c) the date, at least 20 business days after the notice is published, by which the submissions may be made;

(d) where the submissions may be made.

(4) Subsection (2) does not apply if the amendment—

(a) merely corrects a minor error in the regulation; or

(b) is not a change of substance.

(5) Also, subsection (2) does not apply if—

(a) the amendment is for the purpose of including land in, or excluding land from, the water authority’s authority area; and

(b) the water authority has by resolution asked the chief executive for the amendment to be made; and

(c) the chief executive is satisfied that all owners of land who are likely to be affected by the amendment have agreed to the amendment.