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PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OPERATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 94

Fee

94 Fee

(1) The purpose of this section is to enable a regulatory authority to recover the administrative costs of preparing and giving clean-up notices.
(2) A person who is given a clean-up 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 own initiative or on the application of a person to whom subsection (2) applies.
(4) A person who does not pay the fee within the time provided under this section is guilty of an offence.
: Maximum penalty--200 penalty units.
Note : Section 110 (5) provides that a fee is not payable for the variation of an environment protection notice under this Chapter.



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