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South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009
sec.99ATRestricting water supply
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### sec.99AT Restricting water supply
This section applies if all of the following apply—
premises are connected to an SEQ service provider’s water service;
a residential customer or non-residential customer of the provider fails to do any of the following (the contravention )—
pay a charge for the service;
comply with a service provider water restriction under the Water Supply Act , section 41 ;
if the provider is a distributor-retailer—give security requested under subdivision 1 for the service;
the provider has given the customer at least 1 month’s notice to fix the contravention;
the customer continues not to fix the contravention.
The provider may reduce the water supply to the premises to the minimum level necessary for the customer’s health and sanitation purposes.
However, the provider must not completely shut off the water supply to the premises.
In this section—
fix , the contravention, means—
for a failure to pay a charge—pay the charge; or
for a noncompliance with a restriction—not continue to contravene it; or
for security requested—give it.
s 99AT ins 2010 No. 29 s 21
amd 2010 No. 53 s 165
sub 2012 No. 1 s 39
amd 2012 No. 39 s 11
(sec.99AT-ssec.1) This section applies if all of the following apply— premises are connected to an SEQ service provider’s water service; a residential customer or non-residential customer of the provider fails to do any of the following (the contravention )— pay a charge for the service; comply with a service provider water restriction under the Water Supply Act , section 41 ; if the provider is a distributor-retailer—give security requested under subdivision 1 for the service; the provider has given the customer at least 1 month’s notice to fix the contravention; the customer continues not to fix the contravention.
(sec.99AT-ssec.2) The provider may reduce the water supply to the premises to the minimum level necessary for the customer’s health and sanitation purposes.
(sec.99AT-ssec.3) However, the provider must not completely shut off the water supply to the premises.
(sec.99AT-ssec.4) In this section— fix , the contravention, means— for a failure to pay a charge—pay the charge; or for a noncompliance with a restriction—not continue to contravene it; or for security requested—give it.
- (a) premises are connected to an SEQ service provider’s water service;
- (b) a residential customer or non-residential customer of the provider fails to do any of the following (the contravention )— (i) pay a charge for the service; (ii) comply with a service provider water restriction under the Water Supply Act , section 41 ; (iii) if the provider is a distributor-retailer—give security requested under subdivision 1 for the service;
- (i) pay a charge for the service;
- (ii) comply with a service provider water restriction under the Water Supply Act , section 41 ;
- (iii) if the provider is a distributor-retailer—give security requested under subdivision 1 for the service;
- (c) the provider has given the customer at least 1 month’s notice to fix the contravention;
- (d) the customer continues not to fix the contravention.
- (i) pay a charge for the service;
- (ii) comply with a service provider water restriction under the Water Supply Act , section 41 ;
- (iii) if the provider is a distributor-retailer—give security requested under subdivision 1 for the service;
- (a) for a failure to pay a charge—pay the charge; or
- (b) for a noncompliance with a restriction—not continue to contravene it; or
- (c) for security requested—give it.