Water Act 2000

Subsection (2) applies if—

the chief executive has, before the commencement, given a notice under section 97 of the unamended Act to a holder mentioned in the section requesting the holder to provide proposed arrangements for the management of water; and

the holder has not provided the proposed arrangements before the commencement.

The notice continues to have effect after the commencement and the unamended Act continues to apply in relation to the notice.

Subsection (4) applies if—

proposed arrangements are provided in response to a notice under section 97 of the unamended Act, whether the arrangements are provided before or after the commencement; and

before the commencement, no notice has been published about the draft resource operations plan under section 100 of the unamended Act.

The proposed arrangements are taken to be 1 of the following under the amended Act having regard to the transitional provisions under this part for resource operations plans—

an operations manual submitted to the chief executive for approval;

an application to amend or replace an operations manual;

an application to amend a resource operations licence or distribution operations licence.