New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OPERATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 267A

267A Fee

(1) The purpose of this section is to enable a regulatory authority to recover the administrative costs of preparing and giving noise control notices.

(2) A person who is given a noise control notice by a regulatory authority must within 30 days pay the prescribed fee to the authority.

(3) The regulatory authority may--

(a) extend the time for payment of the fee on the application of a person to whom subsection (2) applies, or

(b) waive payment of the whole or any part of the fee on the authority's initiative or on the application of a person to whom subsection (2) applies.

(4) The fee is not payable during the currency of an appeal against the noise control notice.

(5) A fee is not payable on the variation or revocation of a noise control notice.

(6) If the decision of the Court on an appeal does not invalidate the noise control notice, the fee is payable within 30 days of the decision.

(7) A person who does not pay the fee within the time provided under this section is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty (subsection (7)): 200 penalty units.