New Zealand Acts

URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT 2020 - SECT 151

151 Kāinga Ora has water-related infrastructure powers when development plan becomes operative

1 On and from the date on which a project’s development plan becomes operative, Kāinga Ora has the water-related infrastructure powers in relation to existing, and new, water-related infrastructure—

a) within the project area; and

b) outside the project area, but only to the extent that existing, or new, water-related infrastructure connects to or services (or will connect to or service) the project area.

2 In the case of private land, the exercise of the water-related infrastructure powers is subject to the Public Works Act 1981 as to compensation for injurious affection to land.

3 Subsection (1) is subject to sections 153 to 161 .

4 See also section 17(2) (which prohibits the use of powers in this Act in relation to protected land described in that subsection).

5 See subpart 1 of Part 6 for related powers of entry.