South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WATERWORKS ACT 1932 - SECT 63

63—Penalty for illegally diverting water

        (1)         After any stream or supply of water has been diverted, impounded, or taken by the Corporation, under the authority of this Act, every person who illegally, or without authority of the Corporation, diverts or takes any water supplying or flowing into the stream or source of supply so diverted, impounded, or taken by the Corporation, or who does any unlawful act whereby any such stream or supply of water may be diverted or diminished in quantity, or injured in quality or purity, and who does not immediately repair the injury done by him, on being required by the Corporation, so as to restore such stream or supply of water to the state in which it was before such unlawful act, shall be guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: One thousand dollars.

        (2)         Any such penalty shall be in addition to the sum which such person may be lawfully adjudged to pay to the Corporation for any damage which the Corporation may sustain by reason of the Corporation's supply of water being diminished.

        (3)         The imposition of any such penalty shall not bar the right of the Corporation to bring any action or any other remedy at law in respect of the damage so committed.