FLUORIDATION OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES ACT 1957 - SECT 6
Addition of fluorine to public water supplies
FLUORIDATION OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES ACT 1957 - SECT 6
Addition of fluorine to public water supplies
6 Addition of fluorine to public water supplies
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act, a water supply
authority may, subject to the provisions of this section and the regulations,
add fluorine to any public water supply under its control.
(1A)
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act, a water supply authority
shall, subject to this Act and the regulations, add fluorine to any public
water supply under its control, if directed to do so by the Secretary.
(2) A
water supply authority shall not add fluorine to any public water supply
except with the approval of or at the direction of the Secretary.
(3) A
person, not being a water supply authority, shall not add fluorine to any
public water supply.
(4) A water supply authority making application for the
approval of the Secretary under the provisions of this section shall specify
in the application the public water supply in respect of which the approval is
sought and shall furnish to the Secretary such information as the Secretary
may in any case require.
(5)
(a) The Secretary may by notification published
in the Gazette approve or refuse any such application.
(b) Such notification
shall for the purpose of section 11 be deemed to be a regulation.
(c) Any
approval granted by the Secretary under the provisions of this section shall
be subject to--
(i) a condition requiring the water supply authority to whom
the approval is granted to maintain the content of fluorine in the public
water supply in respect of which the approval is granted at a concentration of
not more than the maximum nor less than the minimum concentration (calculated
as parts per million) specified in the instrument of approval,
(ii) a
condition prohibiting such water supply authority from adding to such public
water supply fluorine in a form other than that specified in the instrument of
approval, and
(iii) such other conditions as may in any case be determined by
the Secretary and specified in the instrument of approval.
(d) The Secretary
may at any time after granting any such approval--
(i) revoke the approval,
(ii) revoke any condition attached to the approval other than a condition
attached thereto pursuant to subparagraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (c),
(iii)
vary any condition attached to the approval, or
(iv) attach new conditions to
the approval.
(6) Any person, not being a water supply authority, who
contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section or
any water supply authority contravening or failing to comply with any of the
provisions of this section or any of the conditions attached to an approval
granted to it under the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of an
offence against this Act.
