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148: Obligations of owner in relation to dam safety assurance programme
or “The dam owner must keep the safety plan where it can be easily found and checked.”
You could also call this:

“ Rules for making safety plans for canals that have different risk levels in different parts ”

If you own a canal that is classified as a dam, you need to know about dam safety assurance programmes. Sometimes different parts of a canal can have different classifications. If you own the whole canal, you only need one safety programme for all of it. If different people own different parts of the canal, each owner needs a safety programme for their part. When deciding how risky your canal is, you need to use the highest risk level from any part of the canal. This helps make sure everyone stays safe, even if some parts of the canal are less dangerous than others.

For more information about dam safety assurance programmes, you can check sections 140 to 145, 147, 148, 150, and 150A of the Building Act. To learn about potential impact classifications, look at section 146 of the same Act.

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Next up: 148B: Dam safety assurance programme for 2 or more dams forming single reservoir

or “Rules for keeping several dams safe when they make one big water area”
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Safety of dams: Dam safety assurance programmes

148ADam safety assurance programme for dams that are canals

  1. This section applies to a dam that is a canal and has different classifications for different sections of the canal in accordance with section 134B.

  2. If the whole canal is owned by a single owner, then for the purposes of sections 140 to 145, 147, 148, 150, and 150A a single dam safety assurance programme suffices for the whole canal.

  3. If the whole canal is not owned by a single owner, then for the purposes of sections 140 to 145, 147, 148, 150, and 150A a single dam safety assurance programme suffices for the sections of the canal in the separate ownership of each owner.

  4. For the purposes of section 146, the potential impact classification that applies to the owner's canal or section of the canal is the highest potential impact classification that applies to any section of the canal.

Notes
  • Section 148A: inserted, on , by section 44 of the Building Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 100).