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WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 22 Registration as a service provider

WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 22

Registration as a service provider

22 Registration as a service provider

(1) This section applies if the regulator is satisfied—
(a) the applicant has complied with section 21 (1) ; and
(b) an entity of whom a requirement is made under section 21 (2) or (3) has complied with the requirement; and
(c) for an applicant who is the prescribed related entity of the relevant infrastructure owner—
(i) the applicant can exercise the powers of a service provider under this Act for supplying the water or sewerage service to which the application relates; and
(ii) without limiting subparagraph (i) , the contractual arrangements between the applicant and the relevant infrastructure owner adequately provide for the applicant to operate the infrastructure to supply the water or sewerage service; and
(iii) if the applicant were to stop supplying, or cease to be the service provider for, the water or sewerage service, the relevant infrastructure owner could within a reasonable period nominate another entity to operate the infrastructure to supply the water or sewerage service.
(2) The regulator must—
(a) register the applicant in the service provider register as the service provider for the water or sewerage service to which the application relates; and
(b) give notice of the registration to—
(i) the applicant; and
(ii) if the applicant is the prescribed related entity of the relevant infrastructure owner—the owner.
(3) The registration takes effect the day the regulator registers the applicant under subsection (2) (a) .