New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER MANAGEMENT (WATER SUPPLY AUTHORITIES) REGULATION 2004 - REG 49

49 Certificate of compliance following completion of plumbing work

(1) A person who does plumbing work must, within 48 hours after completing the work:

(a) give a water supply authority a certificate of compliance duly completed and signed by the person, and

(b) give a copy of the certificate to the owner of the land on which the work was done or to which the work was connected.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2) A certificate of compliance must be in a form approved by the relevant water supply authority and must certify that the plumbing work to which it relates has been completed in accordance with the Plumbing and Drainage Code of Practice.

(3) A person must not, in a certificate of compliance, provide information that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(4) This clause does not apply to or in respect of plumbing work done by an employee of a water supply authority.