Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) This section applies if a drinking water service provider becomes aware that the quality of water supplied from the provider's drinking water service does not comply with the provider's drinking water quality management plan to the extent the water's quality under the plan must be consistent with any water quality criteria for drinking water.
(2) The drinking water service provider must, unless the provider has a reasonable excuse, immediately give the regulator details of the noncompliance and the circumstances that gave rise to the noncompliance (the relevant information).
Maximum penalty--1665 penalty units.
(3) It is not a reasonable excuse for the drinking water service provider to fail to give the relevant information that giving the information might tend to incriminate the provider.
(4) However, if the drinking water service provider is an individual, evidence of, or evidence directly or indirectly derived from, the relevant information that might tend to incriminate the provider is not admissible in evidence against the provider in a civil or criminal proceeding, other than a proceeding for an offence about the falsity of the information.
(5) If the drinking water service provider complies with subsection (2) by giving the regulator the relevant information orally, the provider must as soon as practicable give the regulator notice of the relevant information in the approved form.
Maximum penalty for subsection (5)--200 penalty units.