205Marine pollution compliance cost notices

205 Marine pollution compliance cost notices

205 Marine pollution compliance cost notices

(1) If the Minister has given a marine pollution clean-up notice, marine pollution prevention notice or marine pollution removal notice to a person, the Minister may, by notice in writing, require the person to pay all or any reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Minister in connection with—

(a) monitoring action under the notice, and

(b) ensuring that the notice is complied with, and

(c) any other associated matters.

(2) A public authority that takes clean-up action under section 194 may, by notice in writing, require—

(a) the occupier of the premises at or from which the authority reasonably suspects that the marine pollution incident occurred, or

(b) the person who is reasonably suspected by the authority of having caused the marine pollution incident,

or both, to pay all or any reasonable costs and expenses incurred by it in connection with the clean-up action.

(3) If the Minister takes action under section 203 because a marine environment protection notice is not complied with, the Minister may, by notice in writing, require the person to whom the notice was given to pay all or any reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Minister in taking the action.

s 205: Am 2021 No 8, Sch 1.1[86].