Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Health Act 1958 - SECT 69

Power to Secretary to require councils to show cause

69. Power to Secretary to require councils to show cause



(1) The Secretary may require the councils of the said municipal districts to
show cause why an order should not be made under this Division directing them
or any of them to cleanse the waterway ditch or channel and remedy all defects
affecting the same and prohibiting the recurrence of any such defects.





(2) After hearing the councils or giving them an opportunity of being heard
and after making such inquiry as the Secretary thinks necessary the Secretary
may by order-

   (a)  specify the works that are in the Secretary's opinion necessary in
        order to effectually cleanse the waterway ditch or channel and to
        remedy all defects in the same and to effect any requisite structural
        or non-structural improvements to the same;

   (b)  direct one of the councils to execute the whole of the works or
        apportion the works and the execution thereof between two or more of
        the councils;

   (c)  direct one of the councils to pay the whole cost of the works or
        apportion the cost between two or more of the councils;

   (d)  prohibit the recurrence of the defect; and

   (e)  give such other directions in the premises as the Secretary thinks
        fit.