WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 690 Amalgamating water authorities and authority areas

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 690

690 Amalgamating water authorities and authority areas

(1) A regulation may amalgamate 2 or more water authorities (
"former authorities" ) to form a new water authority.

(2) The regulation must—

(a) name the new water authority; and

(b) if the new water authority is to have an authority area—identify the area; and

(c) dissolve the former authorities; and

(d) if the former authorities had authority areas—dissolve the areas.

(3) A regulation may amalgamate 2 or more former water areas—

(a) taken, under section 1083 (2) , to be authority areas; and

(b) for which the chief executive continues to perform the functions of a water authority.

(4) The regulation must—

(a) identify the new area; and

(b) dissolve the former areas.