WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 691 Dissolution of water authority and authority area

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 691

691 Dissolution of water authority and authority area

(1) A regulation may—

(a) dissolve a water authority if the Minister is satisfied either of the following applies to the water authority—

(i) the water authority has not complied with requirements applying to it under this Act and is unlikely to be able to do so in the future;

(ii) the water authority no longer serves the function for which it was established; or

(b) dissolve a water authority for converting the authority to an alternative institutional structure; or

(c) dissolve a water authority after transferring all its functions to a local government under section 700A ; or

(d) dissolve a water authority and appoint the chief executive to perform the authority’s functions.

(2) If a water authority mentioned in subsection (1) (a) to (c) has an authority area, the regulation may also dissolve the authority area.

(3) If the Minister is satisfied that either of the following no longer serves the function for which it was established, a regulation may dissolve—

(a) a former water area—

(i) taken, under section 1083 (2) , to be an authority area; and

(ii) for which the chief executive continues to perform the functions of a water authority;

(b) an authority area whose water authority was dissolved under subsection (1) (d) .

(4) The chief executive’s appointment to perform the functions of a water authority, for an authority area dissolved under subsection (3) , ceases on the dissolution of the area.