Gas Supply Act 1996 No 38
Current version for 7 January 2011 to date (accessed 26 May 2013 at 15:12)
Part 4ASection 64D

64D   Notification of damage to underground gas pipelines

(1)  A person must, as soon as practicable after becoming aware that any action of the person or any action authorised by the person has damaged an underground gas pipeline, notify the network operator that owns the pipeline of the damage.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2)  The regulations may make provision for the manner in which a person must notify for the purposes of subsection (1).
(3)  Subsection (1) does not require a person to notify the network operator of the damage concerned if another person to whom that subsection applies has already notified the network operator of the damage.
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