WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 192 Interfering with service provider’s infrastructure

WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 192

192 Interfering with service provider’s infrastructure

(1) A person must not, without the written consent of a service provider, interfere with a service provider’s infrastructure.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—1,000 penalty units.

(2) A person must not, without the written consent of a service provider, build over, interfere with access to, increase or reduce the cover over, or change the surface of land in a way causing ponding of water over an access chamber for, a service provider’s infrastructure.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

(3) However, despite subsections (1) and (2) , a person does not require the written consent of the service provider if the person carries out building work for a building or structure on a lot that contains, or is adjacent to a lot that contains, a sewer or water main of the service provider.

(4) In this section—


"building" see the Building Act 1975 , schedule 2 .


"building work" see the Building Act 1975 , section 5 .


"structure" see the Building Act 1975 , schedule 2 .