New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 91D

91D Constructing or using flood work without, or otherwise than as authorised by, a flood work approval

(1) A person--

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

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

is guilty of an offence.

: Tier 2 penalty.

(2) The holder of a flood work approval who constructs or uses a flood work in or in the vicinity of a river or lake, or within a floodplain, 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 flood work otherwise than as authorised by a flood 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 drainage work in accordance with a water supply work approval or drainage work approval.