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Water Act 1989
161JTermination of services to properties consequent on plans for reconfiguration
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161J Termination of services to properties consequent on plans for reconfiguration
(1) An Authority may, by notice in writing, declare serviced properties on any land in any part of its district to cease to be serviced properties for the purposes of this Act.
(2) An Authority must not make a declaration under subsection (1) unless a plan adopted under section 161F and (where the case so requires) approved under section 161G includes a proposal to make such a declaration.
(3) On making a declaration under this section the Authority must serve notice on the owner of each serviced property in the part of the district to which the declaration relates of the making of the declaration and of the day on which the declaration comes into effect.
(4) A notice under subsection (3) must set out the date on which it takes effect, which must be more than 12 months after the day on which the Authority makes the declaration.
S. 161K inserted by No. 99/2005 s. 60.