202CFee

202C Fee

202C Fee

(1) The purpose of this section is to enable the Minister to recover the administrative costs of preparing and giving marine pollution removal notices.

(2) A person who is given a marine pollution removal notice by the Minister must, within 30 days, pay the fee prescribed by the regulations to the Minister.

(3) The Minister may—

(a) extend the time for payment of the fee, on the application of the person, or

(b) waive the payment of the whole or part of the fee, on the Minister’s own initiative or on the application of the person.

(4) A fee is not payable for the variation of a marine pollution removal notice.

(5) A person who does not pay the fee within the time provided under this section is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty—$22,000.

s 202C: Ins 2021 No 8, Sch 1.1[85].