Queensland Numbered Acts

WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 No. 34 - SECT 57

(1) This section applies if the chief executive is satisfied that there is or there is likely to be--

(a) a severe water supply shortage; or

(b) an increase in the severity of a water supply shortage.

(2) The chief executive may, by written direction, require a water service provider to give a customer, or type of customer, a written notice requiring the customer to--

(a) amend an approved water efficiency management plan and give it to the water service provider within the reasonable period stated by the chief executive; or

(b) prepare a new water efficiency management plan and give it to the water service provider within the reasonable period stated by the chief executive.

(3) The water service provider must comply with the direction.

Maximum penalty--500 penalty units.

(4) The customer must comply with a notice given under subsection (2).

Maximum penalty--500 penalty units.

(5) This division, other than section 52, applies for preparing the amended or new plan, with any necessary changes to give effect to the division.