Public Utilities Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Water Undertaking of Board
39. Entry into Board’s premises without consent, etc.
Feedback & supportDespite any written law, a person must not enter or use any premises belonging to the Board, or reserved for the Board for laying of a main, without the prior written consent of the Board.
premises
“premises” includes buildings, structures, streets, lands, waters, tenements, easements of any tenure, whether State land or not, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;
The Board may, by written notice, require any person whose cable, pipe, main or other property of whatever description is located under, over, in, on, along or across the premises mentioned in subsection (1) to remove the cable, pipe, main or property from the premises within the period specified in the notice.
Board
“Board” means the Public Utilities Board reconstituted under the Public Utilities Act in force before 1 April 2001 and continued by section 3;
All costs and expenses incurred by the person in complying with the notice must be borne by the person.
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.