WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 91K
Meter tampering
WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 91K
Meter tampering
91K Meter tampering
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if the person
interferes with, damages, destroys or disconnects any metering equipment that
has been installed in connection with a water management work, and does so
intentionally or recklessly.
: Tier 1 penalty.
(2) A person is guilty of an
offence if the person interferes with, damages, destroys or disconnects any
metering equipment that has been installed in connection with a water
management work.
: Tier 2 penalty.
(3) Without limiting subsections (1) and
(2), a person interferes with metering equipment if the person unseals any
sealed component of the equipment, blocks any part of the equipment, attaches
to the equipment any device that is likely to affect the operation of the
equipment or disconnects the equipment from its source of power.
(4) This
section does not apply to anything--
(a) that a duly qualified person, or a
person specified under section 326 (2A), does to metering equipment (other
than metering equipment that may only be maintained, repaired, modified or
replaced by the Ministerial Corporation or Water NSW) for the sole purpose of
maintaining, repairing or replacing the equipment, or
(b) that is done to
metering equipment by or with the written authority of the Ministerial
Corporation or Water NSW or the Water NSW Act 2014 , or
(c) that is done to
metering equipment by or on behalf of the holder of the water supply work
approval or drainage work approval solely for the purposes of complying with
any requirements of regulations made under this Division.
