Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2010
86Improvement notice
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86 Improvement notice (1) An authorised officer who believes on reasonable grounds a person has contravened or is contravening or likely to contravene a provision of this Act may serve on the person an improvement notice: (a) specifying the provision, belief and reasons for the belief; and (b) requiring the person to remedy: (i) the contravention or likely contravention; or (ii) the matters or activities occasioning the contravention or likely contravention; and (c) specifying the way in which the person should remedy the contravention, likely contravention, matters or activities; and (d) specifying the period within which the person must comply with the notice; and (e) including information about applying for a review of the decision to serve the notice. (2) The authorised officer must have regard to the following when deciding to serve the notice: (a) the nature of the contravention or likely contravention; (b) any risk to persons or property resulting from the contravention or likely contravention and the severity of the risk.