New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OPERATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 267B

267B Compliance costs

(1) The appropriate regulatory authority that gives a noise control notice to a person may, by notice in writing (in this section referred to as a
"compliance cost notice" ), require the person to pay all or any reasonable costs incurred by the authority in connection with--

(a) monitoring action under the notice, and

(b) ensuring that the notice is complied with, and

(c) any other associated matters.

(2) A regulatory authority may recover any unpaid amounts specified in a compliance cost notice as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.

(3) If the person given a compliance cost notice complies with the notice but was not the person who caused the noise, the cost of complying with the notice may be recovered by the person who complied with the notice as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction from the person who caused the noise.