Pursuant to section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991, the Minister for the Environment hereby gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice may be cited as the Resource Management (Approval of Watercare Services Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 2012.
(2) This notice shall come into force on 1 July 2012.
2. Approval as a requiring authority-Watercare Service Limited is hereby approved as a requiring authority, under section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991, for its network utility operations of:
(a) undertaking the distribution of water for supply; and
(b) undertaking a drainage and sewerage system;
including the operation, maintenance, replacement, upgrading and improvement of infrastructure related to these operations, in the Auckland region and in the Waikato Region, for the purposes of providing services to Auckland.
3. Interpretation-This approval includes infrastructure relating to the abstraction, storage, supply and treatment
of water and the collection, treatment and disposal of wastewater.
4. Revocations-This notice revokes the following:
(a) Resource Management (Approval of Watercare Services Limited as Requiring Authority) Order 1992 (SR 1992/351) (New Zealand Gazette, 10 December 1992, No. 201, page 4459).
(b) Resource Management (Approval of Watercare Services Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 1993 (New Zealand Gazette, 5 August 1993, No. 119, page 2286).
(c) Resource Management (Approval of Watercare Services Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 1994 (New Zealand Gazette, 7 April 1994, No. 31, page 1278).
(d) Resource Management (Approval of Watercare Services Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice (No. 2) 1994 (New Zealand Gazette, 7 April 1994, No. 31, page 1278).
(e) Resource Management (Approval of Watercare Services Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 1996 (New Zealand Gazette, 15 February 1996, No. 13 page 450).
(f) Resource Management (Approval of Watercare Services Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 1996 (New Zealand Gazette, 26 April 1996, No. 39 page 1120).
(g) Resource Management (Approval of Watercare Services Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 1999 (New Zealand Gazette, 22 July 1999, No. 85 page 2005).
(h) Resource Management (Approval of Metro Water Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice (No. 1) 1998 (New Zealand Gazette, 20 August 1998, No. 120 page 2899).
(i) Resource Management (Approval of Metro Water Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice (No. 2) 1998 (New Zealand Gazette, 20 August 1998, No. 120 page 2899).
(j) Resource Management (Approval of Manukau Water Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 2006 (New Zealand Gazette, 22 June 2006, No.63, page 1504).
Dated at Wellington this 11th day of June 2012.
HON AMY ADAMS, Minister for the Environment.