91VRehabilitation direction

91V Rehabilitation direction (1) The Board may direct, by written notice, a person to rehabilitate land (a rehabilitation direction) if the Board believes on reasonable grounds that: (a) clearing land by the person resulted in substantial degradation of the land; or (b) clearing was contrary to the clearing permit or this Act. (2) The rehabilitation direction may: (a) require the person: (i) to prepare a rehabilitation plan for the land for the person to implement; and (ii) to submit the rehabilitation plan to the Board for approval within a specified period; or (b) specify that the Board has prepared a rehabilitation plan for the land which the person must implement. (3) After receiving a rehabilitation plan from a person under subsection (2)(a) for approval, the Board must: (a) if the Board considers the plan is adequate – approve the plan by written notice given to the person within 14 days of making the decision; or (b) if the Board does not consider the plan is adequate – return the plan by written notice given to the person for amendment as directed by the Board within 14 days of making the decision. (4) A person must implement: (a) the rehabilitation plan prepared by the Board under subsection (2)(b); or (b) the rehabilitation plan approved by the Board under subsection (3)(a). (5) If a rehabilitation plan requires the person to do a specified act within a specified period and the person fails to do the act within that period, the Board may authorise, in writing, a person to: (a) enter the land the subject of a rehabilitation plan, with or without equipment and machinery; and Pastoral Land Act 1992 80 (b) do the act required to be done. (6) The cost to the Territory of work carried out under subsection (5) is a debt due and payable to the Territory.