Review of Part
86ZR Review of Part
The regulator must, within the last year of each prescribed period, conduct a review of water infrastructure and sewerage infrastructure subject to this Part to determine whether this Part should continue to apply.
The regulator must give reasonable notice of the review in a newspaper circulating generally throughout the State inviting written submissions on the matters under review within a reasonable time specified in the notice.
The regulator must consider submissions made in response to the notice and other submissions made in the course of other forms of public consultation undertaken by the regulator in connection with the review.
On completing the review, the regulator must forward to the
Minister a report on the review and the conclusions reached by the regulator as a result of the review and, in particular, must recommend either—
that this Part should continue in operation for a further prescribed period; or
that this Part should expire at the end of the existing prescribed period.
The Minister must cause a copy of the report to be laid before both
Houses of Parliament and must have the regulator's recommendation published in the Gazette.
This Part expires at the end of a prescribed period unless—
the regulator has, in the report of a review conducted during the prescribed period, recommended that it should continue in operation for a further prescribed period; and
a regulation has been made extending the period of its operation accordingly.
In this section—
prescribed period means—
the period ending 30 June 2019; and
each successive period of 5 years thereafter.
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