Water Management Act 2000
239RMinisterial directions about rules
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239R Ministerial directions about rules
239R Ministerial directions about rules
(1) The Minister may, by notice in writing to a private water trust or the trustees of a trust, direct the trust or trustees to comply with, or cease to contravene, the rules of the trust.
(2) The notice may direct the trust or trustees to take specified action or to cease to take specified action.
(3) A trust or the trustees of a trust must not contravene a direction under this section.
Maximum penalty—Tier 2 penalty.
Maximum civil penalty—Tier C civil penalty.
s 239R: Ins 2010 No 133, Sch 2[59]. Am 2025 No 70, Sch 3[73].