New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 296

296 Orders regarding costs and expenses of investigation

(1) The court may, if it appears to the court that a government agency has reasonably incurred costs and expenses during the investigation of the offence, order the offender to pay to the government agency the costs and expenses so incurred in such amount as is fixed by the order.

(2) In this section--

"costs and expenses" , in relation to the investigation of an offence, means the costs and expenses incurred--

(a) in taking any sample or conducting any inspection, test, measurement or analysis during the investigation of the offence, or

(b) in transporting, storing or disposing of evidence during the investigation of the offence.