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WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 230 Notice about permanently stopping supply of recycled water

WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 230

Notice about permanently stopping supply of recycled water

230 Notice about permanently stopping supply of recycled water

(1) Subsection (2) applies if a recycled water provider for a recycled water scheme that is not a critical recycled water scheme proposes to permanently stop the supply of recycled water under the scheme.
(2) The recycled water provider must give the regulator notice of the proposed stoppage at least 30 days before supply of the recycled water is stopped, unless the provider has a reasonable excuse for not giving the notice.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.
(3) Subsection (4) applies if—
(a) a recycled water provider or other declared entity for a critical recycled water scheme proposes to permanently stop the supply of recycled water by the provider or entity under the scheme; and
(b) there is no other entity willing to take over the operation of all or part of the scheme to ensure the continued production and supply of recycled water under the scheme.
(4) The relevant entity for the critical recycled water scheme must give the regulator notice of the proposed stoppage at least 60 days before supply of the recycled water is stopped, unless the relevant entity has a reasonable excuse for not giving the notice.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—1,665 penalty units.
(5) A notice under subsection (2) or (4) must—
(a) be in the approved form; and
(b) state the day by which the supply of recycled water is proposed to stop.
(6) The regulator may require—
(a) the relevant entity for the recycled water scheme to give the regulator additional information about the notice; or
(b) any information included in the notice, or any additional information required under paragraph (a) , to be verified by statutory declaration.
(7) If the relevant entity fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a requirement under subsection (6) within the reasonable period stated in the notice, the notice given by the entity under subsection (2) or (4) is of no effect.
(8) If the supply of recycled water under the recycled water scheme continues after the day stated in the notice, the notice ceases to have effect as a notice given under subsection (2) or (4) .
(9) If the supply of the recycled water under the recycled water scheme stops, the relevant entity for the recycled water scheme must give the regulator notice of the stoppage within 5 days after the supply stops.
(10) The notice must—
(a) be in the approved form; and
(b) state the day on which the supply of recycled water stopped.
(11) In this section—


"relevant entity" , in relation to a multiple-entity recycled water scheme, includes any recycled water provider or other declared entity for the scheme.