Queensland Consolidated Acts

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 35

35 Obtaining water information

(1) The chief executive may give a person who is authorised, or has an entitlement, to take or interfere with water under this Act a notice requiring information—

(a) the person is required to keep under a condition of the person’s authority or entitlement; or

(b) about the person’s water use; or

(c) about the water managed, taken or supplied under the person’s authority or entitlement; or

(d) about the water that was managed, taken or supplied through water infrastructure to which a person’s authority or entitlement applies; or

(e) about the taking or supplying of water by the person under the person’s authority or entitlement.

(2) The notice—

(a) may be given at any time; and

(b) must state the reasonable time by which the information must be given to the chief executive.

(3) The person must comply with the notice, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.

(4) However, this section does not require a person who is an individual to give information if giving the information might tend to incriminate the person.