WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 572 Power to make and levy rates and charges

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 572

572 Power to make and levy rates and charges

(1) A category 1 water authority, for carrying out its functions under this Act, may make and levy charges on its customers.

(2) A category 2 water authority, for carrying out its functions under this Act, may make and levy—

(a) charges on its customers; and

(b) if the authority has an authority area—rates and charges on its ratepayers.

(3) Without limiting subsection (1) or (2) (a) , the authority may make and levy a charge for providing connections to its works.

(4) A charge may be made and levied on a volumetric basis for water activities carried out.

(5) A rate may be made and levied on a ratepayer’s land in the authority area in relation to a water service—

(a) if the water service is provided to the land as an irrigation service involving the supply of water the volume of which is not measured—on the basis of the area of the land that is the subject of the irrigation service; or

(b) otherwise—on the basis that it is land to which water may be supplied under the water service.

(6) Subsections (4) and (5) do not limit the ways in which a charge or rate may be made or levied.