Public Health Act 1997

This section applies if a water utility has reasonable grounds for believing that an imminent serious risk to public health is likely to arise because of the processing of drinking water by it.

The water utility must—

tell the chief health officer as soon as possible about the risk; and

prepare a written notice (the public risk notice) alerting the public to the risk; and

notify the public risk notice under the Legislation Act 2001.

Maximum penalty: 2 000 penalty units.

The public risk notice is a notifiable instrument.

The water utility must—

give additional public notice of the public risk notice; and

take all other reasonable measures to alert the public to the risk.

Maximum penalty: 2 000 penalty units.

Note Public notice means notice on an ACT government website or in a daily newspaper circulating in the ACT (see Legislation Act, dict, pt 1). The requirement in s (4) (a) is in addition to the requirement for notification on the legislation register as a notifiable instrument.