sec.40Recovery of costs

### sec.40 Recovery of costs This section applies if— a person damages a service provider’s infrastructure; or a service provider suffers loss because a person— makes an unauthorised connection to the service provider’s infrastructure; or discharges material, if it is not material the service provider has authorised to be discharged, into the service provider’s infrastructure; or interferes with the service provider’s infrastructure; or pollutes the water in the service provider’s infrastructure. The service provider may recover from the person as a debt the amount of the loss or the reasonable cost of repairing the damage. (sec.40-ssec.1) This section applies if— a person damages a service provider’s infrastructure; or a service provider suffers loss because a person— makes an unauthorised connection to the service provider’s infrastructure; or discharges material, if it is not material the service provider has authorised to be discharged, into the service provider’s infrastructure; or interferes with the service provider’s infrastructure; or pollutes the water in the service provider’s infrastructure. (sec.40-ssec.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. - (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. - (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. - (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.