Queensland Consolidated Acts

WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 20

(1) The following persons must, before starting to operate as the supplier of a water or sewerage service, apply for registration as a service provider—

(a) a local government that owns infrastructure for supplying water or sewerage services;

(b) a water authority that owns infrastructure for supplying water or sewerage services;

(c) each person who is—

(i) the owner of 1 or more elements of infrastructure for supplying water or sewerage services for which a charge is intended to be made; or

(ii) if a person is nominated in a regulation as a related entity of a person mentioned in subparagraph (i)—the person nominated.

(2) However, subsection (1) does not apply to a person who owns infrastructure that produces and supplies recycled water, or that supplies recycled water that is coal seam gas water, unless the person also owns other infrastructure for supplying a water or sewerage service.