Greenhouse Gas Geological Sequestration Act 2008
270ACompliance with monitoring and verification plan—improvement notice
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270A Compliance with monitoring and verification plan—improvement notice
(1) This section applies if the Environment Protection Authority is satisfied that the holder of an authority is not complying with a monitoring and verification plan forming part of an injection testing plan or a monitoring and verification plan approved in relation to that authority.
(2) The Environment Protection Authority may issue to the holder of the authority an improvement notice requiring the holder to take specified action within a specified period to stop the failure to comply from continuing or occurring again.
(3) The holder of the authority must comply with the notice.
(4) Without limiting any other power or function of the Environment Protection Authority, the Environment Protection Authority may prosecute an offence against subsection (3).