Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Amendment By-laws (No. 2) 2007 (WA)

5 April 2007 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 1529

WATER/SEWERAGE

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Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909

Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Amendment By-laws (No. 2) 2007

Made by the Minister under the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage,
and Drainage Act 1909 section 146 and the Water Agencies (Powers)
Act 1984 section 34.

1.            Citation

These by-laws are the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Amendment By-laws (No. 2)2007.

2.            The by-laws amended

The amendments in these by-laws are to the Metropolitan Water
Supply, Sewerage and Drainage By-laws 1981*.

[* Reprint 5 as at 14 July 2006.]

3.             By-law 28.1 amended

(1) By-law 28.1 is amended as follows:

(a)	by inserting before "The discharge" the sub-bylaw designation "28.1.1";
(b)	in paragraph (1) by deleting all of the paragraph after "thereof" and inserting instead -

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for any of the following purposes -

(i) treatment apparatus referred to in
paragraph (m) or otherwise marking

affixing an identification tag to any identification;

(ii)      removing an identification tag or mark referred to in subparagraph (i);

(iii)     taking samples of industrial waste for analysis and otherwise;

(iv)      inspecting the treatment apparatus;

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(c) after paragraph (1) by inserting -

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(la) The occupier of the property shall -

(i) ensure, as far as practicable, that any

identification tag or mark that the
Corporation uses to identify the
treatment apparatus under
paragraph (l)(i) is not removed or
defaced or otherwise damaged; and
as soon as practicable after the occupier
becomes aware that any such tag or
mark is removed or defaced or
otherwise damaged, notify the

Corporation of the removal or damage;

(d) in paragraph (m) by deleting the comma after "and";

(e) after paragraph (m) by inserting -

(ma) The occupier shall, after any cleansing or

maintenance of a treatment apparatus required
under paragraph (m) that is done on or after
1 July 2007 -

(i)     notify the Corporation in writing of the cleansing or maintenance within 7 days after the day on which it is done; and

(ii) identification information on or in the
tag or mark that the Corporation uses to include in the notification the paragraph (l)(i);

(f) after paragraph (o) by deleting "and".

(2) At the end of by-law 28.1 the following sub-bylaw is

inserted -

28.1.2 The Corporation may at any time, by notice in writing

given to the occupier of a property from which

industrial waste is permitted to be discharged -

(a)	vary or remove any condition of the permit imposed by the Corporation; or
(b)	impose a new condition on the permit.

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4.            Transitional provision

By-law 28.1 of the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage By-laws 1981, as amended by these by-laws, applies, after the commencement of these by-laws, in relation to a permit to discharge industrial waste, whether the permit is granted before, on or after that commencement.

JOHN KOBELKE, Minister for Water Resources.