WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 102
Notice of noncompliance with water quality criteria
WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 102
Notice of noncompliance with water quality criteria
102 Notice of noncompliance with water quality criteria
(1) This section applies if the drinking water service provider becomes aware
that the quality of water supplied from the provider’s drinking water
service does not comply with the water quality criteria relating to the
service.
(2) The drinking water service provider must, unless the provider
has a reasonable excuse, immediately inform the regulator of the noncompliance
and the circumstances that gave rise to the noncompliance.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—1,665 penalty units.
Note—
If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an
executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 487A, to
have also committed the offence.
(3) The drinking water service provider
must, unless the provider has a reasonable excuse, give the regulator notice
of the following in the approved form as soon as practicable—
(a) the
noncompliance and the circumstances that gave rise to the noncompliance;
(b)
any action taken, or to be taken, by the provider to correct the
noncompliance;
(c) the measures the provider will take to prevent the
noncompliance in the future.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty for subsection
(3) —200 penalty units.
Note—
If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an
executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 487A, to
have also committed the offence.