Victorian Current Acts

WATER ACT 1989 - SECT 291D

    (1)     An authorised water officer may require a person to state his or her name and address if that authorised water officer has reasonable grounds for believing that the person has contravened, or is contravening—

        (a)     an offence set out in section 170F in relation to a permanent water saving plan of the Authority that appointed the authorised water officer;

        (b)     an offence set out in a by-law made under section 171(1)(ba) by the Authority that appointed the authorised water officer.

    (2)     Subject to subsections (3) and (4), a person who is required under this section to state his or her name and address must not—

        (a)     refuse to state that name or address; or

        (b)     state a false name or address.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (3)     An authorised water officer must produce his or her identity card for inspection before exercising a power under subsection (1).

    (4)     It is not an offence for a person to fail to comply with subsection (2) if the authorised water officer did not comply with subsection (3).

S. 291E inserted by No. 17/2012 s. 55.