Queensland Consolidated Acts

WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 40

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a person damages a service provider's infrastructure; or

(b) a service provider suffers loss because a person—

(i) makes an unauthorised connection to the service provider's infrastructure; or

(ii) discharges material, if it is not material the service provider has authorised to be discharged, into the service provider's infrastructure; or

(iii) interferes with the service provider's infrastructure; or

(iv) pollutes the water in the service provider's infrastructure.

(2) The service provider may recover from the person as a debt the amount of the loss or the reasonable cost of repairing the damage.