Western Australian Current Acts

COUNTRY AREAS WATER SUPPLY ACT 1947 - SECT 11A

11A .         Penalty for diverting or taking water

                Any person who, other than with the authority of the Minister or under another written law, diverts water from any watercourse or source of supply within any catchment area or water reserve or does any act by which the watercourse or source of supply may be diverted or diminished in quantity or injured in quality or purity is guilty of an offence.

        Penalty:

            (a)         for an individual — a fine of $10 000;

            (b)         for a body corporate — a fine of $20 000.

        [Section 11A ⁵ inserted: No. 25 of 2012 s. 9.]