South Australian Consolidated Acts

SEWERAGE ACT 1929 - SECT 36

36—Waste material not to be discharged onto land or into pit etc

        (1)         After a drain connecting land to the undertaking has been installed or constructed, no person shall discharge, or permit the discharge of, any waste material that could be lawfully discharged into the undertaking by means of that drain—

            (a)         on to that land or into a pit, well or tank dug or erected on that land; or

            (b)         from that land on to neighbouring land or into a pit, well or tank dug or erected on neighbouring land,

unless he has been authorised to do so by the Corporation.

        (2)         The Corporation may attach such conditions as the Corporation thinks fit to an authorisation granted under this section and may vary or revoke an authorisation at any time.

        (3)         A person who contravenes subsection (1) or contravenes or fails to comply with a condition attached to an authorisation under subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: Five hundred dollars.

        (4)         Where a drain connecting land to the undertaking has been closed off or disconnected by the Corporation pursuant to this Act, subsection (1) shall apply to the waste material that could have been lawfully discharged by means of that drain if it had not been closed off or disconnected.