Water Management Act 2000

If a water supply authority refuses or fails to comply with a direction or requirement given or made by the Minister in relation to this Part, the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette—

in the case of a water supply authority listed in Part 1 of Schedule 3, appoint an administrator to exercise all the functions, or specified functions, of the water supply authority, or

in the case of a statutory body listed in Part 2 of Schedule 3, with the consent of the Minister administering the Act by which the statutory body is constituted, appoint an administrator to exercise all the functions, or specified functions, of the water supply authority under this Part.

An administrator has, during his or her term of office and to the exclusion of the water supply authority, the functions the administrator was appointed to exercise.

Regulations may be made for or with respect to—

the accommodation (if any) to be provided at the offices of a water supply authority for the administrator and his or her assistants, and

requiring the employees of a water supply authority to assist, and to refrain from obstructing, the administrator in the exercise of his or her functions.

This section does not apply to a water supply authority listed in Part 3 of Schedule 3.