CONSTITUTION ACT 1975 - SECT 97 Delivery of water services
CONSTITUTION ACT 1975 - SECT 97
Delivery of water services(1) If at any time on or after the commencement of section 5 of the Constitution (Water Authorities) Act 2003 a public authority has responsibility for ensuring the delivery of a water service, that or another public authority must continue to have that responsibility.
(2) A public authority that, at any time on or after the commencement of section 5 of the Constitution (Water Authorities) Act 2003 , has responsibility for ensuring the delivery of a water service must, while it has that responsibility, be accountable to a responsible Minister of the Crown for ensuring the delivery of that service.
(3) Nothing in this section prevents a public authority that has responsibility for ensuring the delivery of a water service entering into an arrangement of any kind with a person or body (including an independent contractor) relating to the delivery of that service while itself retaining that responsibility and remaining accountable to a responsible Minister of the Crown for ensuring the delivery of that service.
(4) Nothing in this section prevents the making of
an alteration to the structure, composition or membership of a public
authority that has responsibility for ensuring the delivery of a water service
if the alteration does not affect its status or the status of a successor body
as a public authority accountable to a responsible Minister of the Crown for
ensuring the delivery of that service.
Pt 8
(Heading
and s. 96) repealed by No. 24/1996 s. 34(c), new Pt 8 (Heading
and ss 98, 99) inserted by No. 8/2021 s. 4.
Part VIII—Maintaining the prohibitions on hydraulic fracturing and coal seam gas exploration and mining
S. 98 inserted by No. 8/2021 s. 4.