WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 103
Requirement about giving water quality information
WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 103
Requirement about giving water quality information
103 Requirement about giving water quality information
(1) This section applies if a drinking water service provider obtains water
for the provider’s drinking water service from a water storage or other
infrastructure that is not part of a water service for which there is a
drinking water quality management plan.
(2) The drinking water service
provider may, by notice given to the owner of the water storage or other
infrastructure, ask the owner to give the drinking water service provider the
information reasonably required by the provider about the quality of water in
the water storage or infrastructure.
(3) The notice must—
(a) include
enough details about the information reasonably required to enable the owner
of the water storage or other infrastructure to comply with the request; and
(b) state the reasonable period within which the information must be given.
(4) The owner of the water storage or other infrastructure must comply with
the notice, unless the owner has a reasonable excuse.
Penalty—
Maximum
penalty—500 penalty units.
(5) The owner of the water storage or other
infrastructure may recover from the drinking water service provider the
reasonable costs incurred by the owner in obtaining the information.
(6) The
owner of the water storage or other infrastructure may recover, as a debt due
to the owner, any amount the owner is entitled to recover under subsection (5)
.
