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WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 91B Constructing or using water supply work without, or otherwise than as authorised by, a water supply work approval

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 91B

Constructing or using water supply work without, or otherwise than as authorised by, a water supply work approval

91B Constructing or using water supply work without, or otherwise than as authorised by, a water supply work approval

(1) A person--
(a) who constructs or uses a water supply work, and
(b) who does not hold a water supply work approval for that work,
is guilty of an offence.
: Tier 2 penalty.
(2) A holder of a water supply work approval who constructs or uses a water supply work otherwise than as authorised by the approval is guilty of an offence.
: Tier 2 penalty.
(3) Without limiting subsection (2), a person constructs or uses a water supply work otherwise than as authorised by a water supply work approval if the person constructs or uses such a work while the approval is suspended.
(4) This section does not prevent a person from constructing or using a drainage work or flood work in accordance with a drainage work approval or flood work approval.
(5) It is a defence to a prosecution under subsection (1) if the accused person establishes that the water supply work was constructed or used pursuant to a basic landholder right.