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Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008
sec.342AChief executive may give referable dam notice to particular dam owners
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### sec.342A Chief executive may give referable dam notice to particular dam owners
This section applies if the chief executive reasonably believes a dam would, if it were failure impact assessed, have a category 1 or category 2 failure impact rating.
The chief executive may give the owner of the dam a notice (a referable dam notice ) stating—
the failure impact rating the chief executive believes the dam would have if it were failure impact assessed; and
the reasons for the belief; and
that the dam will be a referable dam with the stated failure impact rating on and from a stated day (the effective day ), unless the owner gives the chief executive a failure impact assessment for the dam; and
that if a failure impact assessment for the dam is not given to the chief executive before the effective day, the owner must have the dam failure impact assessed within a stated period of at least 5 years after the effective day; and
any safety conditions the chief executive proposes to apply to the dam under division 3 .
The effective day must be at least 60 business days after the notice is given.
The referable dam notice must include or be accompanied by an information notice for the decision to give the notice.
This section does not apply to a dam that must be failure impact assessed under section 343 .
s 342A ins 2017 No. 11 s 8
(sec.342A-ssec.1) This section applies if the chief executive reasonably believes a dam would, if it were failure impact assessed, have a category 1 or category 2 failure impact rating.
(sec.342A-ssec.2) The chief executive may give the owner of the dam a notice (a referable dam notice ) stating— the failure impact rating the chief executive believes the dam would have if it were failure impact assessed; and the reasons for the belief; and that the dam will be a referable dam with the stated failure impact rating on and from a stated day (the effective day ), unless the owner gives the chief executive a failure impact assessment for the dam; and that if a failure impact assessment for the dam is not given to the chief executive before the effective day, the owner must have the dam failure impact assessed within a stated period of at least 5 years after the effective day; and any safety conditions the chief executive proposes to apply to the dam under division 3 .
(sec.342A-ssec.3) The effective day must be at least 60 business days after the notice is given.
(sec.342A-ssec.4) The referable dam notice must include or be accompanied by an information notice for the decision to give the notice.
(sec.342A-ssec.5) This section does not apply to a dam that must be failure impact assessed under section 343 .
- (a) the failure impact rating the chief executive believes the dam would have if it were failure impact assessed; and
- (b) the reasons for the belief; and
- (c) that the dam will be a referable dam with the stated failure impact rating on and from a stated day (the effective day ), unless the owner gives the chief executive a failure impact assessment for the dam; and
- (d) that if a failure impact assessment for the dam is not given to the chief executive before the effective day, the owner must have the dam failure impact assessed within a stated period of at least 5 years after the effective day; and
- (e) any safety conditions the chief executive proposes to apply to the dam under division 3 .