Emergency works
36 Emergency works
A person is exempt in relation to the construction or use of a water supply work to carry out emergency works if the person complies with subsection (2).
The person must—
before or as soon as reasonably possible after commencing the emergency works, make a record of the following information—
the person’s name and contact details,
the name and contact details of other persons or bodies, if any, intending to carry out the works,
the address of the site of the works,
the nature of the emergency event resulting in the need to carry out the works,
the significant risk to be reduced by the works, and
within 14 days after completing the emergency works, make a record of the following further information—
the date of completion of the works,
the volume of groundwater or overland flow water extracted while carrying out the works,
if it is not possible to measure the volume of groundwater or overland flow water extracted while carrying out the works—an estimate of the volume.
The person must keep records made for subsection (2) for 5 years.
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