Victorian Current Acts

WATER ACT 1989 - SECT 170E

    (1)     An Authority must implement immediately—

        (a)     a permanent water saving plan adopted by the Authority in accordance with section 170A or 170B(8);

        (b)     a variation to an adopted permanent water saving plan referred to in paragraph (a).

    (2)     Implementation involving the imposition or removal of restrictions or prohibitions on the use of water in an area may be effected by the Authority publishing a notice in the Government Gazette and a newspaper circulating generally in the area specifying—

        (a)     the restrictions or prohibitions imposed or being substituted or removed; and

        (b)     the area to which they apply or applied; and

        (c)     the time from which they apply or cease to apply, not being earlier than the latest day on which the notice is published.

    (3)     A person cannot be convicted of an offence against section 170F in respect of a contravention of a restriction or prohibition on the use of water contained in a permanent water saving plan if prior to the relevant time notice of the particular restriction or prohibition had not been published in accordance with subsection (2).

S. 170F inserted by No. 90/2003 s. 6.