Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts If any person, not
being authorised by the water board —
(1) Wilfully or
carelessly breaks, injures, opens or shuts, or wilfully permits to be broken,
injured, or opened or shut, any lock, sluice, cock, valve, pipe, or other
authorised fitting, or any work belonging to the water board;
(2) Flushes or draws
off the water from any reservoir or other work of the water board; or
(3) Does any other
wilful act, or wilfully permits to be done any act whereby such water is
wasted,
he shall forfeit and
pay to the water board a sum not exceeding $2 000, and shall, in
addition, be liable to pay to the water board any damage sustained in respect
thereof, as well for the value of the water wasted as in repairing the
fittings or other parts of the works; and the amount of such damage shall be
ascertained, determined, and recovered in the same manner as such forfeited
sum.
[Section 73 amended by No. 113 of 1965
s. 8; No. 110 of 1985 s. 156.]