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140: Requirement for dam safety assurance programme
or “Dam owners must create and check safety plans for medium and high-risk dams, or face fines.”
You could also call this:

“The rules say what must be included in a plan to keep dams safe.”

A dam safety assurance programme is a special plan to make sure a dam is safe. You need to create this programme in a specific way. The government has rules about how it should look and what it should include. When you make a dam safety assurance programme, you have to follow these rules exactly. The programme must be written using the correct form that the government has decided on. It also has to meet all the safety standards and criteria that the government has set for dams. These rules help make sure that all dam safety programmes are done properly and keep people safe.

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Next up: 142: Owner must provide dam safety assurance programme to regional authority

or “The person who owns a dam must give the local government a safety plan and a certificate from an expert to show the dam is safe.”
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Safety of dams: Dam safety assurance programmes

141Content of dam safety assurance programme

  1. A dam safety assurance programme must—

  2. be in the prescribed form; and
    1. meet the prescribed criteria and standards for dam safety.