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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Miscellaneous provisions - Compliance and enforcement - Power to take and test samples

282: Power to take and test samples

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"Compliance officers can take and test samples to check if rules are being followed"

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If you are a compliance officer, you can take and test a sample of something to see if it meets the rules, but only for a reason listed in section 281. You cannot take a sample from someone's body. When you take a sample, you must give the person it was taken from a list of all the samples you took within 10 working days. The sample can only be used to check if the rules are being followed, are being followed now, or will be followed in the future.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Compliance and enforcement: Power to take and test samples

282Power to take and test samples

  1. A compliance officer may, for a purpose specified in section 281, take and test a sample of any material, substance, or other thing for analysis.

  2. However, subsection (1) does not authorise a compliance officer to take a sample from a person’s body.

  3. A compliance officer must, not later than 10 working days after removing any sample under this section, give the person from whom it was taken an inventory of all samples taken.

  4. A sample taken under subsection (1) may only be used to determine whether compliance requirements have been, are being, or will be met.

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