28Compliance cost notices

28 Compliance cost notices

28 Compliance cost notices

(1) If the Environment Protection Authority gives a clean-up notice under section 19 to a person, the Authority may, by notice in writing, require the person to pay all or any reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Authority in connection with—

(a) monitoring action under the notice, and

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

(c) a matter associated with or incidental to a matter referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

(1A) Without limiting subsection (1)(c), the costs incurred by the Environment Protection Authority in connection with a matter associated with or incidental to a matter referred to in subsection (1)(a) or (b) include costs and expenses incurred in connection with the clean-up notice before the notice was given.

(2) A public authority that takes clean-up action under section 20 may, by notice in writing, require—

(a) the person who is reasonably suspected by the public authority of having caused the pesticide pollution concerned, or

(b) the occupier of the premises at which the public authority reasonably suspects that the pesticide pollution occurred,

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

s 28: Am 2025 No 58, Sch 4[4] [5].