COUNCILS

102. Councils' powers and duties: –

1)  Any arrangement entered into between the SIDA, an AWB or an FO and a Council, whereby that Council exercises its rights under the Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001, to distribute and deliver water and remove and treat sewage and drainage water shall be notified by the SIDA, AWB or FO concerned to the Regula-tory Authority.

2)  Arrangements entered into for the purposes of this section may contain any such provision as may be agreed between the relevant Council and the SIDA, AWB or FO but shall not affect the availability to any person, other than the relevant Council, of any remedy against that SIDA, AWB or FO in respect of the carrying out of its functions or of any failure to carry them out.

3)   It is hereby declared that, if arrangements entered into for the purposes of this section so provide, a relevant Council shall be entitled to exercise on behalf of the SIDA, an AWB or an FO any power which by or under any enactment is exercisable by the SIDa, that AWB or that FO for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of the SIDA, that AWB or that FO's functions in this regard.

4) The Council shall notify the AWB or the FO from which it receives supplies, about any material deterioration in water quality and, if it is not satisfied, within a reasonable period of time, that all such remedial action as is appropriate has been taken by that AWB, it shall report the matter to the Regulatory Authority