South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009 (Qld)

South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009

An Act to further restructure the water industry in south-east Queensland

Chapter 1 Preliminary

Part 1 Introduction

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009.

2 Commencement (1) Sections 108 to 110 commence on the day after the date of assent of this Act. (2) Sections 111 and 112 commence on the day after the repeal of the Integrated Planning Act 1997 under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009.

Part 2 Purposes and application of Act

3 Purposes of Act The purposes of this Act are to do the following for the SEQ region— (a) improve water supply coordination and management; (b) deliver improved and more efficient water services and wastewater services to customers; (c) improve the management of water and wastewater infrastructure.

4 Achievement of purposes (1) The purposes are achieved by— (a) continuing the SEQ region water industry restructure started under the 2007 restructuring Act; and (b) providing for the making of a customer water and wastewater code for the provision of water services and wastewater services to customers in the SEQ region. (2) This Act provides for the continued restructure by— (a) creating new integrated retail and distribution authorities (called 'distributor-retailers') to deliver the services to customers within a particular area for each (called its 'geographic area'); and (b) providing for the following to, subject to this Act, deliver the services to customers in their local government areas from 1 July 2012— (i) the Gold Coast City Council; (ii) the Logan City Council; (iii) the Redland City Council; and (c) providing for particular matters relating to distributor-retailers to be fixed by agreement with the local governments for their geographic area (called their 'participating local governments'); and (d) facilitating the transfer to distributor-retailers of the infrastructure and functions of their participating local governments as service providers for the services; and (e) providing for all distributor-retailers to become service providers on and from 1 July 2010; and (f) the inclusion of particular provisions about the performance of the functions of distributor-retailers as service providers.