New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 10C

10C Correction of misleading information

(1) The Chief Health Officer may, by notice in writing given to a supplier of drinking water, direct the supplier to retract or correct any information or advice issued, by or on behalf of the supplier, to the public in relation to the safety of the supplier’s drinking water if the Chief Health Officer is of the opinion that the information or advice is inaccurate, incomplete or otherwise misleading.

(2) The Chief Health Officer may specify any one or more of the form, content and manner of the retraction or correction and of its publication.

(3) A supplier of drinking water who is given a direction under this section must comply with the direction as and when required by the direction.

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

(4) If the supplier of drinking water fails to comply with the direction within the time specified in the direction, the Chief Health Officer may issue the retraction or correction on behalf of the supplier.