Water Act 2007
7Infrastructure operators etc.
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7 Infrastructure operators etc.
(1) This section applies if a person owns or operates infrastructure for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) the storage of water;
(b) the delivery of water;
(c) the drainage of water;
for the purpose of providing a service to someone who does not own or operate the infrastructure.
(2) The person is an infrastructure operator.
(3) The infrastructure is water service infrastructure.
(4) If water service infrastructure is operated for the purposes of delivering water for the primary purpose of being used for irrigation:
(a) each infrastructure operator for the water service infrastructure is an irrigation infrastructure operator; and
(b) the water service infrastructure is the irrigation network of each of those irrigation infrastructure operators.