WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 34
Power to direct remedial work
WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 34
Power to direct remedial work
34 Power to direct remedial work
(1) This section applies to the owner of—
(a) defective or improper
equipment connected to, or adversely affecting, a service provider’s
infrastructure; or
(b) land on which there is situated vegetation or any
other thing adversely affecting the service provider’s infrastructure or
ability to provide the services for which the service provider is registered.
(2) The service provider may give the owner a notice to do work, within the
reasonable period stated in the notice, to—
(a) rectify the equipment; or
(b) remove the vegetation or other thing.
(3) If the owner does not do the
work within the period stated in the notice—
(a) an authorised person may,
under section 36, enter the place where the work is required and do the work;
and
(b) the service provider may recover from the owner as a debt the cost of
the work.
