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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Miscellaneous provisions - Compliance and enforcement - Power to obtain information

284: Power to require name, date of birth, and address

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"Compliance officers can ask for your name, date of birth, and address if you break a water rule"

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If you are found breaking a rule under the Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025, a compliance officer can ask you for your name, date of birth, and address. The officer can do this if they catch you breaking a rule or if they think you might have broken a rule.

The compliance officer must tell you why they need this information and warn you that it is against the law to not give them your details, unless you have a good reason.

If the officer thinks you are giving them false information, they can ask you to prove that your details are correct. The rules about keeping information private, which are outlined in the Search and Surveillance Act 2012, still apply when a compliance officer asks for your details.

This law does not change any other rules that might stop information from being collected.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Compliance and enforcement: Power to obtain information

284Power to require name, date of birth, and address

  1. A compliance officer may require a person to provide the person’s name, date of birth, and residential address if—

  2. the officer finds the person committing an offence under this Act; or
    1. the officer finds the person in circumstances that lead, or has information that leads, the officer to reasonably suspect that the person has committed an offence under this Act.

      1. When asking a person to provide their name, date of birth, and residential address, the compliance officer must—

      2. tell the person the reason for the requirement to provide their name, date of birth, and residential address; and
        1. warn the person that it is an offence to fail to provide their name, date of birth, and residential address, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

          1. If the compliance officer reasonably believes that the name, date of birth, or residential address that a person provides is false, the compliance officer may require the person to give evidence of their correctness.

          2. Subpart 5 of Part 4 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (privilege and confidentiality) applies to anything done under this section.

          3. Nothing in this section limits any other legislation that imposes a prohibition or restriction on the collection of information.

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