New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 91C

91C Constructing or using drainage work without, or otherwise than as authorised by, a drainage work approval

(1) A person--

(a) who constructs or uses a drainage work, and

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

is guilty of an offence.

: Tier 2 penalty.

(2) The holder of a drainage work approval who constructs or uses a drainage 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 drainage work otherwise than as authorised by a drainage 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 water supply work or flood work in accordance with a water supply work approval or flood work approval.