Section 93 - Water Management (Water Supply Authorities) Regulation 2025 - Basis of levying service charges

93Basis of levying service charges

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93 Basis of levying service charges

(1) For the Act, section 314, a water supply authority may levy service charges according to one or more of the following bases—

(a) the availability of the service (the access component),

(b) the usage of the service (the usage component).

(2) The access component may vary according to the following—

(a) the size of the water meter registering water supply to the land,

(b) the nominal size (DN) of the water supply service pipe supplying water to the land at the point where it joins—

(i) the water meter registering water supply to the land, or

(ii) if there is no water meter—the water supply authority’s water main,

(c) the cost of providing the service, as assessed by the water supply authority,

(d) the classification of the land as determined by the water supply authority under this subdivision.

(3) The usage component may vary—

(a) for a water supply service charge—according to the volume of water supplied to the land, or

(b) for another service charge—according to the degree of use of the service as assessed by the water supply authority.

(4) In this section—

nominal size (DN) has the same meaning as in AS/NZS 3500.0:2021, Plumbing and Drainage, Part 1: Glossary Terms, as in force from time to time, published by Standards Australia.