WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 648
Special procedures for draft corporate plan
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 648
Special procedures for draft corporate plan
648 Special procedures for draft corporate plan
(1) The Minister may return the draft corporate plan to the water authority
and request it to—
(a) consider, or further consider, any matter and deal
with the matter in the draft plan; and
(b) revise the draft plan in the light
of its consideration or further consideration.
(2) The board must comply with
the request as a matter of urgency.
(3) If a draft corporate plan has not
been agreed to by the Minister before the start of the financial year, the
Minister may, by notice, direct the authority—
(a) to take specified steps
in relation to the draft plan; or
(b) to make specified modifications to the
draft plan.
(4) The authority must immediately comply with a direction under
subsection (3) .
(5) The Minister must cause a copy of a direction to be
published in the gazette within 15 business days after it is given.