New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE WATER CORPORATION ACT 2004 - SECT 27

27 Obstruction of water management works

(1) If a person places a structure or other thing in or near any of the Corporation’s water management works in such a manner as to interfere with the work, the Corporation may:

(a) demolish and remove the structure or other thing, and

(b) repair the work, and

(c) recover the cost of doing so in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt owing to the Corporation by the person who placed the structure or other thing there.

(2) The Corporation may apply for and obtain an injunction to prevent a structure or other thing being placed as referred to in subsection (1).