PART 6CIVIL ENFORCEMENT, EMERGENCY POWERS AND FURTHER OFFENCES

Reasonable facilities, information and assistance

98Affording of reasonable facilities to engineers

1

The reservoir manager of a controlled reservoir must, on being requested by a relevant engineer, provide the engineer with all reasonable facilities the engineer may seek in connection with the exercise of the engineer's powers and duties under this Act.

2

The reservoir manager—

a

must, on being requested by a relevant engineer, make available to the engineer—

i

where the reservoir is a high-consequence reservoir or a medium-consequence reservoir, the record maintained by the manager under section 37,

ii

the record maintained by the manager under section 58,

b

must on being so requested provide a relevant engineer with such further information or particulars as the engineer may require, in such form and manner and by such time as the engineer may by notice require.

3

For the purposes of this section, a “relevant engineer” is a supervising engineer (including a nominated representative of a supervising engineer under section 26(7)(a) who is acting as such in the event of the supervising engineer being unavailable), an inspecting engineer, any other qualified engineer or a construction engineer commissioned for the time being in relation to the reservoir.