New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 10E

10E Power to declare Chief Health Officer solely responsible for determining necessity for boil water advices

(1) The Director-General may, by order published in the Gazette, declare that, in relation to a supplier of drinking water specified in the order, the function specified in subsection (4) is to be exercised only by the Chief Health Officer.

(2) A declaration under this section operates to confer the power to exercise the function on the Chief Health Officer.

(3) The Director-General is taken to have published such orders in relation to Sydney Water Corporation and Hunter Water Corporation on the commencement of this section. The Director-General may, by further order published in the Gazette, amend or revoke an order so taken to have been published.

(4) The function concerned is that of deciding from time to time:

(a) whether a boil water advice is to be issued in respect of the drinking water supplied or available for supply by the supplier, and

(b) if a boil water advice is to be issued-the additional information (if any) that is to be provided to the public in connection with it, and

(c) whether a boil water advice that has been issued is to be withdrawn.