6Minister may add to classes of persons exempted from restrictions

6 Minister may add to classes of persons exempted from restrictions

(1)  After being notified under regulation 5 of a restriction of the supply of water by a regulated entity, the Minister may declare, by notice, in addition to those persons already exempted by the regulated entity under regulation 4(3)  –

(a) further classes of persons who are exempted from the restriction of the supply of water; and

(b) the extent to which members of those further classes of persons are exempted from the restriction of the supply of water.

(2)  The Minister may only include in a notice under subregulation (1) a class of persons if he or she is satisfied that –

(a) it is unreasonable or unnecessary; or

(b) it would cause unreasonable or unnecessary hardship to members of the class –

if the members were not exempted, in the manner specified in the notice, from the restriction of the supply of water specified in the notice.

(3)  A regulated entity is to publish in a newspaper, circulating generally in the area to which a restriction of water supplied by the entity applies, a copy of a declaration of the Minister under subregulation (1) that relates to the restriction.