WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 28
Limiting or prohibiting taking, or interfering with, water during contamination or water shortages
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 28
Limiting or prohibiting taking, or interfering with, water during contamination or water shortages
28 Limiting or prohibiting taking, or interfering with, water during
contamination or water shortages
(1) Subsection (2) applies if the Minister is satisfied urgent action should
be taken because— (a) there is a shortage of water; or
(b) there is a thing
in harmful quantities in water.
(2) The Minister must publish a notice— (a)
limiting, for a particular purpose or otherwise, either or both of the
following— (i) the volume of water a person may take;
(ii) the rate at
which, and the times when, a person may take water; or
(b) limiting a
person’s entitlement to interfere with water; or
(c) prohibiting taking or
interfering with water.
(3) The limit or prohibition has effect despite any
authority a person has under another provision of this Act.
(4) The notice
remains in force for the period of not more than one year stated in the
notice.
(5) Nothing prevents the Minister from acting under this section a
second or subsequent time.
(6) The notice is subordinate legislation.
(7) A
person must not take or interfere with water in contravention of the notice.
Penalty— Maximum penalty for subsection (7) —1,665 penalty units.