New Zealand Acts

COMMERCE ACT 1986 - SECT 57ZI

57ZI Process for making or amending Commission service quality code

1 To make a Commission service quality code, the Commission must—

a) give public notice of the process that it will follow to make the code; and

b) consult the Water Services Authority—Taumata Arowai and other interested persons; and

c) give public notice of a draft code.

2 A person is entitled to make a submission to the Commission not later than 30 working days after the date on which the Commission gives public notice of the draft code.

3 The Commission must—

a) take reasonable steps to identify classes of vulnerable consumers; and

b) consider the impact of the provision of services on vulnerable consumers and take the interests of those persons into account when making the code.

4 The Commission may make the code only if satisfied that the draft code meets all the requirements set out in this subpart.

5 The Commission may amend or revoke and replace the code if the Commission considers that the code should be changed to better promote the purpose of this Part.

6 The same procedure that applies to making a code in subsections (1) to (4) must be followed to make an amendment or a revocation and replacement, with any necessary modifications, except that subsections (1) to (4) do not apply if the Commission is satisfied that an amendment is non-material.

Note: 2023 No 54 s 69

History: Section 57ZI: inserted, on 27 August 2025, by section 15 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).