Health Act 1956

69ZD Duty to keep records and make them available

• (1) Every drinking-water supplier and every temporary drinking-water supplier who is required to prepare a public health risk management plan under section 69Z or 69ZA must—

  • (a) keep records that contain sufficient information to enable a drinking-water assessor to ascertain whether or not that drinking-water supplier or temporary drinking-water supplier is complying with the requirements of—

    • (i) this Part; and

    • (ii) the drinking-water standards; and

    • (iii) that drinking-water supplier's or temporary drinking-water supplier's public health risk management plan; and

  • (b) keep records of any other risk management plan relevant to that supplier's supply.

  (2) Without limiting subsection (1), in the case of a drinking-water supplier, the records kept must include details of—

  • (a) the steps taken to prevent contamination of the raw water used by that drinking-water supplier; and

  • (b) the steps taken to maintain the quality of that raw water and to protect its source or sources; and

  • (c) the source or sources from which the raw water used by the drinking-water supplier to supply drinking water is obtained; and

  • (d) the treatment of that drinking water; and

  • (e) any risk analysis, or asset management or emergency management plans undertaken or devised by the supplier to assist the supplier to comply with the supplier's duties under this Part; and

  • (f) the steps taken by the drinking-water supplier to protect that drinking water from pollution after it has been treated or assessed as not in need of treatment, and before it is supplied to the point of supply; and

  • (g) the monitoring of that drinking water; and

  • (h) any complaints received from its customers or users in relation to that drinking water, and the actions taken in relation to those complaints.

  (3) Without limiting subsection (1), in the case of a drinking-water supplier who is a water carrier, the records kept must include—

  • (a) details of the steps taken by that water carrier to protect the raw water carried by that carrier from contamination and the drinking water transported by that water carrier from pollution before or during transportation; and

  • (b) details of the monitoring of that raw water or drinking water; and

  • (c) details of any complaints received in relation to that raw water or drinking water, and the actions taken in relation to those complaints; and

  • (d) the keeping in each vehicle, vessel, or rail wagon used to transport water of all the information required to be kept by regulations made under this Act.

  (4) Records kept under this section must be made available, on request by a drinking-water assessor or designated officer, for inspection or assessment by the assessor or officer.

  Section 69ZD: inserted, on 1 July 2008, by section 7 of the Health (Drinking Water) Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 92).