CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 111A
Offset arrangements
CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 111A
Offset arrangements
111A Offset arrangements
(1) The Minister may, if he or she considers it to be in the public interest
to do so, enter into offset arrangements with a person responsible for the
contamination of land under which the person provides assistance (other than
direct monetary assistance) to communities affected by the contamination.
Note
: Assistance may, amongst other things, include the provision of community
facilities or community services or the establishment and operation of
environmental or resource projects.
(2) Despite subsection (1), the Minister
is not to enter into offset arrangements with a person who is or has been an
approved party to a voluntary management proposal in respect of land that has
been the subject of that proposal if--
(b) the voluntary management proposal was approved on
the basis of false or misleading information provided by the person.
(3)
Offset arrangements may be entered only if the Minister reasonably considers
that it would not be practicable to remediate the contamination within a
reasonable time.
(4) Offset arrangements are to be in writing and may specify
the circumstances and manner in which functions under this Act are to be
exercised if the assistance is duly provided and any such function is to be
exercised accordingly.