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WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 36

36 Obtaining water information

(1) For advancing the purposes of this chapter, the chief executive may give a person who is authorised, or has an entitlement, to take, or interfere with, water under this Act a notice requiring information--

(a) the person is required to keep under a condition of the person's authority; or
(b) about the person's water use; or
(c) about the use of water managed, taken or supplied under the person's authority; or
(d) about any use of water that was managed, taken or supplied through water infrastructure to which a person's authority now applies; or
(e) about the taking or supplying of water by the person under the person's authority.

(2) The notice--

(a) may be given at any time; and
(b) must state the reasonable time by which the information must be given to the chief executive.

(3) The person must comply with the notice, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Maximum penalty--200 penalty units.

(4) However, this section does not require the person to give information if giving the information might tend to incriminate the person.



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