Waterworks Clauses Act 1952

No person shall – destroy or injure any part of the undertaking; remove, injure, or destroy any survey peg or landmark inserted or made in connection with any work constructed under the authority of this Act or the special Act; in any manner prevent or obstruct the flow of water in or through any part of the undertaking; or otherwise injure or obstruct the passage of the water in a pure and wholesome state through any part of the undertaking. Fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.

No person shall – bathe in any stream above and within the prescribed distance of the undertakers' source of supply or in any lake which is a source of supply within the prescribed distance of the intake of the waterworks or in any reservoir or other part of the undertakers' waterworks, or wash, throw, or cause or permit to enter therein any animal, whether alive or dead; throw any rubbish, dirt, filth, or other noisome thing into any lake, or stream from which the undertakers are lawfully diverting water, so as to affect the undertakers' source of supply, or into any reservoir or other part of their undertaking, or wash or cleanse therein any cloth, wool, or leather, or the skin of any animal, or any clothes or other thing; cause or permit the water of any sink, sewer, drain, steam engine, or boiler, or other filthy water belonging to him or under his control to run or to be brought into any such lake, or stream so as to affect the undertakers' source of supply, or into any reservoir or other part of the undertaking, or do or permit to be done any other act whereby the water in the undertaking or any water supplying the same is fouled; waste water supplied by the undertakers; or use water contrary to a prohibition under section thirty-one. Fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.

Notwithstanding subsection (2)(a), it shall be lawful to bathe at any place in a lake which is a source of supply if bathing at that place is permitted by the undertakers in the exercise of their powers under Part IIIA.

No person shall – being the owner or occupier of any premises supplied with water under this Act or the special Act, supply any other person or wilfully permit any other person to take any of such water from any cistern, pipe, or service, or on such premises, except for the purpose of extinguishing any fire, or unless such other person is a person supplied with water by the undertakers from their waterworks, and the pipes belonging to him are out of repair otherwise than through his own fault; without the permission of the undertakers, take any water from any reservoir, watercourse, or conduit belonging to the undertaking, or any pipe leading to any such reservoir, watercourse, or conduit, or from any cistern or other like place containing water belonging to the undertaking other than water which is provided for the gratuitous use of the public; make any pipe to communicate with any waterworks or pipes of the undertakers without the authority of the undertakers in that behalf; wilfully or carelessly break, injure, operate, or interfere with, any lock, cock, valve, pipe, work, or engine belonging to the undertaking, or flush or draw off the water from the reservoirs or other waterworks of the undertakers, or do any other wilful act whereby such water is wasted; or foul the water supplied by the undertakers by making or supplying gas. Fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.

Where the undertakers supply water in a separate pipe for a special purpose, a person who draws, or by making a pipe to communicate with that pipe attempts or prepares to draw, water from that pipe for some other purpose is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.

A conviction pursuant to subsection (3A) is a bar to an indictment for stealing or attempting to steal water by means of the same opening in that pipe.

No person supplied with water by the undertakers shall suffer any pipe or other apparatus by means of which his premises are supplied with water to be out of order so that the water supplied to those premises by the undertakers is wasted. Fine not exceeding 2 penalty units.

No person shall permit or suffer the drainage from any yard, pigsty, stable, cow-house, sawmill, or other place to so run, drain, or percolate as to render the water in the waterworks or supplying the same unwholesome. Fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.

Every person convicted of any offence against this Act may be ordered to pay, in addition to the penalty imposed in respect of the offence, a sum equal to the value of the property damaged or destroyed by him by reason of the commission of the offence.