New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 91B

91B Constructing or using water supply work without, or otherwise than as authorised by, a water supply work approval

(1) A person--

(a) who constructs or uses a water supply work, and

(b) who does not hold a water supply work approval for that work,

is guilty of an offence.

: Tier 2 penalty.

(2) A holder of a water supply work approval who constructs or uses a water supply work otherwise than as authorised by the approval is guilty of an offence.

: Tier 2 penalty.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), a person constructs or uses a water supply work otherwise than as authorised by a water supply work approval if the person constructs or uses such a work while the approval is suspended.

(4) This section does not prevent a person from constructing or using a drainage work or flood work in accordance with a drainage work approval or flood work approval.

(5) It is a defence to a prosecution under subsection (1) if the accused person establishes that the water supply work was constructed or used pursuant to a basic landholder right.