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136: Regional authority must decide whether to approve or refuse dam classification
or “The person in charge of an area must quickly say yes or no to how a dam owner groups their dam.”
You could also call this:

“A trusted dam owner can classify their dam without needing extra checks, and the local council will accept it right away.”

If you’re an accredited dam owner, you don’t need to do some of the things other dam owners have to do. You don’t have to get someone else to check your dam classification. You also don’t need to give the regional authority a special certificate about your dam’s classification.

When you give your dam classification to the regional authority, they will automatically approve it. You don’t need to wait for them to review it or give you official approval. As soon as the regional authority gets your classification, it’s considered approved.

This is different from what other dam owners have to do, as explained in sections 134 to 136 of this law. The regional authority trusts that accredited dam owners know how to classify their dams correctly.

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Next up: 138: Regional authority must require re-audit of dam classification that it refuses to approve

or “If the local government doesn't agree with how you've labelled your dam, they will make you get an expert to check it again.”
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Safety of dams: Classification of dams

137Dam classification provided to regional authority by accredited dam owner deemed to have been approved

  1. Despite sections 134 to 136,—

  2. an accredited dam owner is not required to—
    1. submit a classification given to a dam by the accredited dam owner for audit; and
      1. provide the regional authority with the certificate referred to in section 135(1)(b); and
      2. the classification given to a dam by the accredited dam owner is deemed, on receipt of the classification by the regional authority, to have been approved by that regional authority under section 136.