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Building Act 2004

Building - Safety of dams - Dam safety assurance programmes

148: Obligations of owner in relation to dam safety assurance programme

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“The dam owner must keep the safety plan where it can be easily found and checked.”

If you own a dam that has an approved safety assurance programme, you need to do a few things. You must keep the programme in a safe place. This can be at the dam itself, in another building in the same region as the local authority, or somewhere else that you and the local authority agree on. You also need to make sure that the programme is available for inspection. The local authority can check it, and so can any person or group that has the legal right to inspect your dam.

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Safety of dams: Dam safety assurance programmes

148Obligations of owner in relation to dam safety assurance programme

  1. An owner of a dam for which a dam safety assurance programme has been approved, or is deemed to have been approved, must ensure—

  2. that the dam safety assurance programme is kept—
    1. on the dam; or
      1. in another building in the region of the regional authority; or
        1. in some other place agreed on by the owner and the regional authority; and
        2. that the dam safety assurance programme is available for inspection by—
          1. the regional authority; or
            1. any person or organisation who or that has a right to inspect the dam under any Act.

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