WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 692
Public notice of proposed amalgamation or dissolution
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 692
Public notice of proposed amalgamation or dissolution
692 Public notice of proposed amalgamation or dissolution
(1) Before a regulation amalgamates water authorities or authority areas or
dissolves a water authority or an authority area, the chief executive must
publish notice of the proposed amalgamation or dissolution—
(a) in the
gazette; and
(b) in another way, if the chief executive considers the way to
be appropriate having regard to the intended audience for the notice.
(2)
However, subsection (1) does not apply to a proposed amalgamation or
dissolution mentioned in the subsection if the chief executive is satisfied—
(a) the ratepayers in each authority area to which the proposed amalgamation
or dissolution relates have been informed about the proposal by the water
authority for the area; and
(b) the proposed amalgamation or dissolution is
because of action taken by the State in response to the Webbe-Weller review;
and
(c) the publication of the notice is not appropriate, having regard to
the public interest.
(3) For a proposed amalgamation or dissolution of an
authority area mentioned in section 691(3) (b) —
(a) subsection (1) (b)
does not apply; but
(b) the chief executive must give the notice to all
landholders in the authority area who are being supplied with water at the
time of the proposed amalgamation or dissolution.
(4) A notice given under
subsection (1) must—
(a) contain the information about the proposed
amalgamation or dissolution the chief executive considers appropriate; and
(b) state the following—
(i) that written submissions on the proposed
amalgamation or dissolution may be made to the chief executive;
(ii) the
date, at least 20 business days after the notice is published, by which the
submissions may be made;