New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH (MICROBIAL CONTROL) REGULATION 2000 - REG 15

15 Register of water-cooling and warm-water systems

(1) Each local authority is to maintain a register of water-cooling systems and warm-water systems installed on regulated premises in its area.

(2) An entry in the register is to be made for such a system when the local authority is notified of any of the particulars relating to the system that are referred to in subclause (3).

(3) An entry in the register relating to a system is to show the following:

(a) the type of system,

(b) the address of the premises on which the system is installed,

(c) the name, and the residential and business addresses, of the owner of the premises and, if the operation area on the premises is occupied otherwise than by the owner, those particulars in relation to the occupier,

(d) the telephone numbers at which, during business hours and after business hours, the person or persons referred to in paragraph (c) may be contacted,

(e) details of any inspections carried out by the local authority for the purposes of the Act.

(4) The register is to be maintained in such a way that the entries may be quickly retrieved and is to be organised in alphabetical order according to the name of the suburb or city forming part of the address of the premises to which the entries relate.

(5) A person who is the owner or occupier of premises where a system is installed in respect of which particulars are required to be kept under this clause is guilty of an offence if the local authority is not provided with the particulars (other than those relating to inspections):

(a) within 1 month after the person becomes the owner or occupier of the premises, or

(b) if there is an alteration to particulars previously provided-within 1 month after the alteration.

Maximum penalty-(subclause (5)): 10 penalty units.