New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MARITIME SERVICES ACT 1935 - SECT 13TB

13TB Compliance with certain notices

(1) Where a person other than a public authority fails to comply with the requirements of a notice under section 13TA the Board may cause the requirements of the notice to be complied with at its own expense and may recover as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction the costs and expenses of so doing.

(2) Where, in any proceedings brought under subsection (1), the court is satisfied that the work caused to be done by the Board to carry out or complete the requirements of any notice referred to in that subsection also included work which was not, in the circumstances, necessary for proper and effective compliance with those requirements, the court, in determining the amount of the costs and expenses recoverable by the Board, may deduct from the costs and expenses of the work caused to be done by the Board such amount as it considers proper.