LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 639 Pollution of public water supply

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 639

639 Pollution of public water supply

(1) A person who wilfully or negligently does any act which damages or pollutes (or is likely to damage or pollute) a public water supply, or a source of that supply, is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.

(2) The occupier of premises on which a pipe or fitting supplied with water from a public water supply is directly connected to a device or fitting--

(a) that is designed for use for the dispensing of any chemical compound capable of contaminating the water supply, and

(b) that is a device or fitting of a type other than a type approved for such connection by the Secretary of the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation or by a person authorised by that Secretary to grant such an approval,

is guilty of an offence as if the occupier were the person who actually made the connection.

(3) Subsection (2) does not affect the liability of the person who actually made the connection, but, if a penalty has been imposed on or recovered from any person in relation to the offence, no further penalty in respect of the offence may be imposed on or recovered from any other person.