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Water Act 2000
sec.197Requirement to have an operations manual
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### sec.197 Requirement to have an operations manual
This section applies if a condition on a resource operations licence or distribution operations licence requires the holder of the licence to have a manual dealing with matters stated in the condition (an operations manual ).
The holder must—
prepare the operations manual; and
submit it to the chief executive for approval together with sufficient information to enable the chief executive to decide whether the manual should be approved having regard to the matters mentioned in section 198 (1) .
For subsection (2) (b) , the holder does not submit sufficient information unless the information includes—
if a resource operations licence holder is preparing the operations manual and there is a related distribution operations licence—details of the impact on the distribution operations licence holder; or
if a distribution operations licence holder is preparing the operations manual and there is a related resource operations licence—details of the impact on the resource operations licence holder.
s 197 (prev s 195) ins 2001 No. 75 s 49
renum 2001 No. 75 s 50
amd 2005 No. 19 s 73 ; 2008 No. 34 s 688 ; 2013 No. 23 s 253
sub 2014 No. 64 ss 67 (1) , 68
(sec.197-ssec.1) This section applies if a condition on a resource operations licence or distribution operations licence requires the holder of the licence to have a manual dealing with matters stated in the condition (an operations manual ).
(sec.197-ssec.2) The holder must— prepare the operations manual; and submit it to the chief executive for approval together with sufficient information to enable the chief executive to decide whether the manual should be approved having regard to the matters mentioned in section 198 (1) .
(sec.197-ssec.3) For subsection (2) (b) , the holder does not submit sufficient information unless the information includes— if a resource operations licence holder is preparing the operations manual and there is a related distribution operations licence—details of the impact on the distribution operations licence holder; or if a distribution operations licence holder is preparing the operations manual and there is a related resource operations licence—details of the impact on the resource operations licence holder.
- (a) prepare the operations manual; and
- (b) submit it to the chief executive for approval together with sufficient information to enable the chief executive to decide whether the manual should be approved having regard to the matters mentioned in section 198 (1) .
- (a) if a resource operations licence holder is preparing the operations manual and there is a related distribution operations licence—details of the impact on the distribution operations licence holder; or
- (b) if a distribution operations licence holder is preparing the operations manual and there is a related resource operations licence—details of the impact on the resource operations licence holder.