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

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 91D

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

91D Constructing or using flood work without, or otherwise than as authorised by, a flood work approval

(1) A person--
(a) who constructs or uses a flood work, and
(b) who does not hold a flood work approval for that work,
is guilty of an offence.
: Tier 2 penalty.
(2) The holder of a flood work approval who constructs or uses a flood work in or in the vicinity of a river or lake, or within a floodplain, 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 flood work otherwise than as authorised by a flood 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 water supply work or drainage work in accordance with a water supply work approval or drainage work approval.