Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations(1) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, remove, alter, damage or deface a defect tag attached to a consumer piping system.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to the removal of a defect tag by the person who attached it to the consumer piping system, or by an inspector, if the person or the inspector believes on reasonable grounds that the system is safe.
(3) An inspector who removes a defect tag under subregulation (2) must, as soon as practicable, notify, in writing, the person who had attached the tag of the removal.
(4) In this regulation:
"defect tag" includes an approved tag attached in relation to a consumer piping system under the repealed Gas Supply Regulations, regulation 14 (2).