Victorian Current Acts

WATER ACT 1989 - SECT 316

    (1)     If it is a condition of a licence issued under section 67 that all or any part of the work authorised by the licence must be carried out by, or under the direction of, a licensed driller, a person must not carry out that work unless he or she is—

        (a)     a licensed driller; or

        (b)     an employee or agent of a licensed driller and the work is carried out under the direct supervision of a licensed driller.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (2)     If it is a condition of a licence issued under section 67 that all or any part of the work authorised by the licence must be carried out using a specified method of drilling or bore construction, then subsection (1) applies as if the references to a licensed driller were references to a licensed driller whose licence is endorsed so as to entitle him or her to use the specified method of drilling or bore construction.

S. 316(3) inserted by No. 5/2002 s. 55.

    (3)     If it is a condition of a licence issued under section 67 that all or any part of the work authorised by the licence must be carried out by, or under the direction of, a licensed driller, the licensed driller must ensure that the work, or that part of the work, carried out by, or under the direction of, the licensed driller complies with the conditions of the licence.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.