Water Fluoridation Act 2008

This section applies if a local government makes a decision (a fluoridation decision) to add fluoride, or cease to add fluoride, to the public potable water supply that supplies potable water to the community, or part of its community, in its local government area.

The local government must—

give the chief executive a notice stating that the local government has made a fluoridation decision and the nature of the decision; and

publish the notice in a publicly accessible way.Examples for paragraph (b)—

• publish the notice on the local government’s website

• publish the notice in a newspaper circulating in the area of the State serviced by the public potable water supply

The public potable water supplier for the public potable water supply must, at least 30 days before adding fluoride or ceasing to add fluoride to the water supply—

give a fluoridation notice to the chief executive; and

publish the fluoridation notice in a publicly accessible way.Examples for paragraph (b)—

• publish the fluoridation notice on the local government’s website

• publish the fluoridation notice in a newspaper circulating in the area of the State serviced by the public potable water supply

In this section—

fluoridation notice means a notice stating—

that the local government has made a fluoridation decision; and

that the public potable water supplier for the public potable water supply intends to add fluoride or cease to add fluoride to the water supply from a stated day.