61Water supply and sewerage services extension areas

61 Water supply and sewerage services extension areas (1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare an area to be a water supply services extension area or sewerage services extension area. (2) If the Minister declares an area to be a water supply services extension area or sewerage services extension area, the owner of each parcel of land within the area is liable to pay to the licensee whose licence area includes the water supply services extension area or sewerage services extension area a financial contribution towards the cost of extending water supply services or sewerage services in the area. (3) The liability under subsection (2) exists despite that an owner does not elect to have water supply services or sewerage services supplied by the licensee for use on the land. (4) An owner and a licensee referred to in subsection (2) may enter into an agreement relating to the conditions on or subject to which water supply services or sewerage services will be supplied by the licensee for use on the land. (5) The balance from time to time outstanding of an amount referred to in subsection (2) is an overriding statutory charge, within the meaning of the Land Title Act 2000, on the parcel of land. (6) The owner of a parcel of land who is liable as referred to in subsection (2) must not transfer the land to another person unless he or she has first paid to the licensee the amount of the liability outstanding at the date of the transfer and, for the purposes of calculating the liability, any amount payable in accordance with subsection (2) becomes due and payable in full immediately before the proposed transfer despite that, but for this subsection, it would not become due and payable until a later date.

Water Supply and Sewerage Services Act 2000 30 (7) The financial contribution referred to in subsection (2) is the amount determined in accordance with the charging principles specified in a pricing order. (8) In this section, parcel of land means the whole of the land the subject of a separate certificate as to title registered under the Land Title Act 2000.