267BCompliance costs

267B Compliance costs

267B Compliance costs

(1) The appropriate regulatory authority that gives a noise control notice to a person may, by notice in writing (in this section referred to as a compliance cost notice), require the person to pay all or any reasonable costs 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 and expenses incurred by the appropriate regulatory 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 an associated matter before the compliance cost notice was given.

(2) A regulatory authority may recover any unpaid amounts specified in a compliance cost notice as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.

(3) If the person given a compliance cost notice complies with the notice but was not the person who caused the noise, the cost of complying with the notice may be recovered by the person who complied with the notice as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction from the person who caused the noise.

s 267B: Ins 2005 No 96, Sch 1 [116]. Am 2025 No 58, Sch 9[55] [56].