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Forest Practices Act 1985
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### 47A Recovery of costs for loss or damage
> *\[Section 47A Inserted by No. 29 of 1994, s. 30 \]*[*\[Section 47A Amended by No. 55 of 2004, s. 78, Applied:01 Jul 2005\]*](/view/html/inforce/2005-07-01/act-2004-055#GS78@EN) A court that convicts a person of an offence under [section 17(4)](#GS17@Gs4@EN) , [17(5)](#GS17@Gs5@EN) , [18B](#GS18B@EN) , [21(1)](#GS21@Gs1@EN) , [21(3)](#GS21@Gs3@EN) , [41(5)](#GS41@Gs5@EN) or [42(5)](#GS42@Gs5@EN) may, in addition to any other penalty it may impose, order that person to pay to a person specified by the court –
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> > > (a) the cost of making good any damage done or any loss incurred by reason of the convicted person's act; and
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> > > (ab) [*\[Section 47A Amended by No. 25 of 2019, s. 30, Applied:07 Oct 2019\]*](/view/html/inforce/2019-10-07/act-2019-025#GS30@EN) costs incurred, by the person specified by the court, in repairing or making good any damage done, or in rehabilitating or revegetating any land that has been, or on which the vegetation has been, damaged, degraded, or altered, by reason of the convicted person's act; and
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> > > (b) such other costs as the court considers appropriate.