Queensland Consolidated Acts

COASTAL PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 61

61 Chief executive may take required action

(1) If a person fails to comply with a coastal protection or tidal works notice requiring particular action to be taken (the
"required action" ), the chief executive may take the required action.

(2) For subsection (1) , the chief executive, or a person authorised by the chief executive, may, without any further authority apart from this subsection—

(a) enter and re-enter land at all reasonable times; and

(b) remain on the land for the time that is necessary and reasonable; and

(c) take onto, and keep on, the land the vehicles, materials, equipment and other things that are necessary and reasonable.

(3) The chief executive may recover, as a debt, from the person to whom the notice is directed, the costs and expenses reasonably incurred in taking the required action.