Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if a person (the occupier ) does not comply with a pest management direction requiring the occupier to do something.
(2) An authorised person may, with any reasonable and necessary assistance and force, enter premises to which the direction relates and do anything the occupier was required to do under the direction that was not done.
(3) The reasonable cost incurred by the Territory in doing anything under subsection (2) is a debt owing to the Territory by the occupier.
(4) The director-general must endeavour to give the occupier of premises written notice of any action proposed to be taken under subsection (2) at least 2 working days before the day the action is to begin.
(5) The notice must include the following:
(a) a statement about the operation of this section;
(b) the purpose and nature of the proposed action;
(c) the parts of the premises likely to be affected;
(d) the times when the action is proposed to be taken;
(e) a statement about the obligations of an authorised person and the Territory under subsection (7).
(6) The occupier may waive the right to all or part of the minimum period of notice under subsection (4).
(7) Section 47 (Damage etc to be minimised) and section 48 (Compensation for exercise of enforcement powers) apply to action taken under subsection (2) as if—
(a) it were action taken by an authorised person in the exercise of a function under part 5 (Enforcement); and
(b) all other necessary
changes, and any changes prescribed by regulation, were made.