Safe Drinking Water Act 2003

The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

incidental matters in relation to water quality standards;

the monitoring of drinking water quality, or any component or characteristic of drinking water, including—

specifying the location, frequency and method of collecting samples of drinking water and other water; and

specifying who is to collect the samples (and providing for an approval or accreditation system for collectors); and

specifying the analytical methods to be used to analyse samples; and

specifying who is to conduct analyses of samples (and providing for an approval or accreditation system for analysts); and

specifying how the results of analyses and monitoring are to be reported;

risk management plans and systems, including requirements concerning—

how incidents and emergencies are to be dealt with;

interactions with other people and bodies in relation to incidents and emergencies;

monitoring and verifying the implementation and continued compliance with those plans;

the keeping of records and the collection of information relevant to the plans;

the verification of any record kept or information collected;

the supply of information to consumers to reduce or eliminate risks;

interactions with other water suppliers or water storage managers;

interactions with other people and bodies;

incidental matters in relation to approved auditors;

requiring the reporting of illnesses that may have been caused by water supplied by a water supplier or water storage manager, or of incidents that may have been caused by waterborne things;

requiring the disclosure of the public health risks associated with the supply of regulated water;

forms for the purposes of this Act;

prescribing offences against a provision of this Act or the regulations for the purposes of section 47A(1);

in relation to each offence prescribed for the purposes of section 47A(1), prescribing the penalty for the offence;

generally prescribing any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

The regulations—

may be of general or of specially limited application; and

may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and

may require a matter affected by the regulations to be—

in accordance with a specified standard or specified requirement; or

approved by or to the satisfaction of a specified person or a specified class of person; or

as specified in both subparagraphs (i) and (ii); and

may apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document whether—

wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or

as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time; and

may confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or a specified class of person; and

may provide in a specified case or class of case for the exemption of people or things from any of the provisions of this Act, whether unconditionally or on specified conditions, and either wholly or to such an extent as is specified; and

may impose a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations; and

may be expressed as requiring the achievement of a specified object in relation to any particular subject matter.