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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Miscellaneous provisions - Compliance and enforcement - Power to obtain information

288: Notice of entry

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If you are a compliance officer and you enter a place under the Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025, you must try to find the owner, occupier, or person in charge. If you cannot find them, you must leave a written notice before you leave the place. This notice must include your identity, contact information, the date and time you entered, and why you entered.

Your contact information can include your phone number, email address, or physical or postal address. You must leave this notice if you are unable to find the person in charge, despite making reasonable efforts to do so. This is part of the rules under the Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025, which you can find more information about by looking at the related legislation.

You should know what to include in the notice to make sure you follow the rules correctly.

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

288Notice of entry

  1. If a compliance officer enters any place under this Act and is unable, despite reasonable efforts, to find the owner, occupier, or person in charge as required by this Act, the officer must, before leaving the place, leave a written notice stating—

  2. the officer’s identity; and
    1. the officer’s contact information; and
      1. the date and time of entry; and
        1. the officer’s reasons for entering.

          1. In subsection (1)(b), contact information includes 1 or more of the following:

          2. phone number:
            1. email address:
              1. physical or postal address.

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