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Part 2Provisions relating to supply of drinking water
Standards, rules, directions, and other instruments

51Compliance with acceptable solution or verification method for drinking water

  1. A person who complies with an applicable acceptable solution or verification method must, for the purposes of this Act, be treated as having complied with the legislative requirements to which that acceptable solution or verification method relates (other than the duties under sections 21 and 22).

  2. A person who complies with an applicable acceptable solution or verification method that provides an alternative to the requirements in section 30 must be treated as having complied with those requirements.

  3. A person may comply with an acceptable solution or verification method in order to comply with the legislative requirements to which that acceptable solution or verification method relates, but doing so is not the only means of complying with those legislative requirements.

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