Water Management Act 2000
336ACompliance cost notices
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336A Compliance cost notices
336A Compliance cost notices
(1) The Minister may give a person who is given a direction under this part a compliance cost notice.
(2) A compliance cost notice is a written notice requiring the person to whom it is given to pay the costs and expenses reasonably incurred by the Minister for the following—
(a) preparing and giving of the direction,
(b) monitoring compliance with the direction,
(c) other matters prescribed by the regulations.
(3) A compliance cost notice must specify—
(a) the amount required to be paid, and
(b) a reasonable period, not less than 28 days, within which the amount must be paid.
(4) The Minister may recover an unpaid amount specified in a compliance cost notice as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.
(5) The regulations may provide for the following—
(a) the issue of compliance cost notices,
(b) the form of compliance cost notices,
(c) the calculation of the amount to be paid under a compliance cost notice, including setting the maximum amount that may be charged for particular matters.
s 336A: Ins 2002 No 138, Sch 4 [17]. Subst 2008 No 73, Sch 2 [2]. Am 2017 No 64, sec 19. Subst 2025 No 70, Sch 3[82].