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.