Water Charge Rules 2010
80Transition for schedule of charges provisions (rule 7 and Part 4)
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80 Transition for schedule of charges provisions (rule 7 and Part 4)
(1) This rule applies for the period of 12 months beginning on 1 July 2020.
Note: The effect of rule 80 is that infrastructure charges and planning and management charges that were in effect immediately before 1 July 2020 may continue for up to 12 months without further action by the person levying or determining the charges.
Note: However, if any charge levied by an infrastructure operator or other person is to change, a new schedule of charges must first be adopted and come into effect for that operator or other person in accordance with Part 4 as amended.
Infrastructure operator (2) An infrastructure operator is taken to comply with rule 7 and Part 4 if: (a) each infrastructure charge that the operator levies on a customer is either: (i) a charge specified in a schedule of charges (within the meaning of these rules as in force immediately before 1 July 2020) that: (A) if rule 15 as it then stood was applicable—was published before 1 July 2020 in accordance with that rule; and (B) was in effect for the operator immediately before 1 July 2020; and (C) has been given to the customer; or (ii) covered by subrule 11(7); and (b) each planning and management charge that the operator levies on a customer: (i) is a charge about which information was published before 1 July 2020 in accordance with the Water Charge (Planning and Management Information) Rules 2010; and (ii) was in effect for the operator immediately before 1 July 2020. Other person levying planning and management charges (3) A person other than an infrastructure operator is taken to comply with rule 7 and Part 4 on and after 1 July 2020 if each planning and management charge that it levies on a customer: (a) is a charge about which information was published before 1 July 2020 in accordance with the Water Charge (Planning and Management Information) Rules 2010; and (b) was in effect for the operator immediately before 1 July 2020.