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WATER ACT - SECT 62

Prohibition of unlicensed waste disposal

    (1)     A person shall not, unless authorised by or under this Act to do so, wilfully cause waste to be disposed of underground by means of a bore causing serious environmental harm.

    (1A)     An offence against subsection (1) is an environmental offence level 1.

    (1B)     A person shall not, unless authorised by or under this Act to do so, cause waste to be disposed of underground by means of a bore causing serious environmental harm.

    (1C)     An offence against subsection (1B) is an environmental offence level 2.

    (1D)     A person shall not, unless authorised by or under this Act to do so, cause waste to be disposed of underground by means of a bore causing material environmental harm.

    (1E)     An offence against subsection (1D) is an environmental offence level 3.

    (1F)     A person shall not, unless authorised by or under this Act to do so, cause waste to be disposed of underground by means of a bore.

    (1G)     An offence against subsection (1F) is an environmental offence level 4.

    (2)     In proceedings for an offence against this section, proof of the existence on land of a means whereby waste is capable of being disposed of underground by means of a bore is prima facie evidence that waste was disposed of underground by means of a bore in contravention of this section at the time those means are proved to have existed.

Default penalty:     $500 or, in the case of a body corporate, $2,500.



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