29Decision-maker may recover costs

29 Decision-maker may recover costs

29 Decision-maker may recover costs

(1) The decision-maker is entitled to recover all reasonable costs incurred by the decision-maker in giving a post-commencement authorisation under section 27.

(2) The decision-maker may—

(a) give a written costs assessment to a relevant party that sets out the amount of the costs and the time by which the costs must be paid, and

(b) recover the costs from the relevant party as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction if the relevant party does not pay the costs by the time set out in the costs assessment.

(3) In this section—

relevant party, for building work carried out without approval on land, means the following—

(a) the person having the benefit of the development consent for the building work,

(b) the owner of the land,

(c) the person responsible for carrying out the building work,

(d) the person who carried out the building work.