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Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008
sec.260Internal audits of recycled water management plans
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### sec.260 Internal audits of recycled water management plans
The relevant entity for a recycled water scheme must—
at each required interval, have a suitably qualified person conduct an audit (an internal audit ) of the approved recycled water management plan for the scheme to assess compliance with the plan and its conditions; and
within 30 business days after each internal audit is completed, give the regulator a report about the audit that complies with subsection (2) (an internal audit report ).
Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.
The internal audit report must—
be prepared by the suitably qualified person in accordance with any guidelines about preparing the report made by the regulator; and
state whether there has been noncompliance with the approved recycled water management plan; and
if there has been noncompliance with the plan—state the actions taken, or planned to be taken, in relation to the noncompliance.
If the recycled water scheme is a multiple-entity recycled water scheme, the relevant entity complies with subsection (1) (a) if a declared entity for the scheme has a suitably qualified person conduct the internal audit in accordance with subsection (1) (a) .
In this section—
required interval means an interval, at which internal audits of the approved recycled water management plan must be conducted, stated in the notice about the plan under section 206 (2) (c) .
s 260 sub 2023 No. 24 s 70
(sec.260-ssec.1) The relevant entity for a recycled water scheme must— at each required interval, have a suitably qualified person conduct an audit (an internal audit ) of the approved recycled water management plan for the scheme to assess compliance with the plan and its conditions; and within 30 business days after each internal audit is completed, give the regulator a report about the audit that complies with subsection (2) (an internal audit report ). Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.
(sec.260-ssec.2) The internal audit report must— be prepared by the suitably qualified person in accordance with any guidelines about preparing the report made by the regulator; and state whether there has been noncompliance with the approved recycled water management plan; and if there has been noncompliance with the plan—state the actions taken, or planned to be taken, in relation to the noncompliance.
(sec.260-ssec.3) If the recycled water scheme is a multiple-entity recycled water scheme, the relevant entity complies with subsection (1) (a) if a declared entity for the scheme has a suitably qualified person conduct the internal audit in accordance with subsection (1) (a) .
(sec.260-ssec.4) In this section— required interval means an interval, at which internal audits of the approved recycled water management plan must be conducted, stated in the notice about the plan under section 206 (2) (c) .
- (a) at each required interval, have a suitably qualified person conduct an audit (an internal audit ) of the approved recycled water management plan for the scheme to assess compliance with the plan and its conditions; and
- (b) within 30 business days after each internal audit is completed, give the regulator a report about the audit that complies with subsection (2) (an internal audit report ).
- (a) be prepared by the suitably qualified person in accordance with any guidelines about preparing the report made by the regulator; and
- (b) state whether there has been noncompliance with the approved recycled water management plan; and
- (c) if there has been noncompliance with the plan—state the actions taken, or planned to be taken, in relation to the noncompliance.