New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 10B

10B Advice to public

(1) The Chief Health Officer may from time to time prepare advice, for the benefit of the public, concerning the safety of available drinking water (or drinking water available from a particular supplier) and any possible risks to health involved in the consumption of that water.

(2) An advice under this section may include a boil water advice.

(3) The Chief Health Officer is to provide any advice prepared under this section to the relevant supplier of drinking water.

(4) A supplier of drinking water must issue the advice provided to it under this section to the public in such form and manner as the Director-General may from time to time direct by notice in writing to the supplier.

Maximum penalty: 10,000 penalty units (in the case of a corporation) or 2,500 penalty units (in any other case).

(5) Nothing in subsection (3) or (4) prevents the Chief Health Officer from also issuing the advice to the public as the Chief Health Officer sees fit.