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WATER SERVICES ENTITIES ACT 2022 - SECT 347

347 Principles for setting water infrastructure contributions or policies

1 When the board of a water services entity adopts a water infrastructure contributions policy under section 349 or requires water infrastructure contributions under section 346 , the board should take into account the following principles:

a) water infrastructure contributions should be required only if the effects or cumulative effects of developments or increased commercial demand have created or will create a requirement for the water services entity to provide new or additional assets or assets of increased capacity:

b) water infrastructure contributions should be determined in a manner that has regard to the capacity life of the assets or groups of assets for which they are intended to be used and in a way that avoids over-recovery of costs allocated to water infrastructure contributions funding:

c) cost allocations used to establish water infrastructure contributions should be determined according to, and be proportional to, the persons who are to benefit from the assets to be provided (including the community as a whole) and the persons who create the need for those assets:

d) water infrastructure contributions should be used only for the benefit of the area or the part of the area that is identified in the water infrastructure contributions policy in which the water infrastructure contributions are required:

e) water services entities should make sufficient information available to demonstrate what water infrastructure contributions are being used for and why they are being used:

f) when calculating and requiring water infrastructure contributions, water services entities should group together certain developments by geographic area or categories of land use, provided that the grouping is done in a manner that balances practical and administrative efficiencies with considerations of fairness and equity.

2 Water infrastructure contributions must be consistent with the input methodology or methodologies and determinations that the Commission issues or makes.

History: Section 347: inserted, on 31 August 2023, by section 34 of the Water Services Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 52).