WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 99
Constructing authorities and water service providers
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 99
Constructing authorities and water service providers
99 Constructing authorities and water service providers
(1) A constructing authority or water service provider may take water to
operate public showers or toilets.
(2) A constructing authority may take
water to construct or maintain infrastructure if—
(a) the construction or
maintenance is lawful; and
(b) taking water for that purpose is prescribed by
regulation; and
(c) the constructing authority complies with the following
conditions—
(i) those prescribed by regulation;
(ii) those fixed by the
chief executive, by notice given to the constructing authority, about taking
water.
(3) The conditions may do all or any of the following—
(a) limit the
volume of water the constructing authority may take in a year;
(b) limit the
volume of water the constructing authority may take from a particular source
at a particular location during a stated period;
(c) require the constructing
authority to give the chief executive notice of the constructing authority’s
intention to take water from a particular source;
(d) require the
constructing authority to take the water only through a meter of a type
approved by the chief executive;
(e) require the constructing authority to
give a written report to the chief executive about stated matters for the
water taken;
Examples of matters about which a report may be required—
•
the locations from which water was taken
• the source from which the water
was taken
• the volume of water taken from a source
• the day on which
the water was taken
(f) require the constructing authority to obtain
written approval from the operator of a water supply scheme before taking
water managed under an interim resource operations licence, resource
operations licence or distribution operations licence.