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NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1974 - SECT 91K Directions for remedial work relating to damage to land, habitat and plants and animals

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1974 - SECT 91K

Directions for remedial work relating to damage to land, habitat and plants and animals

91K Directions for remedial work relating to damage to land, habitat and plants and animals

(1) The Secretary may, by notice in writing, direct a person to carry out specified remediation work in a specified manner and within a specified time, if the Secretary is satisfied that--
(a) any land reserved under this Act or acquired under Part 11, or
(b) any critical habitat, or habitat of threatened species, an endangered population or an endangered ecological community, or
(c) any plant or animal that is of, or is part of, a threatened species, an endangered population or an endangered ecological community,
has been damaged in or as a result of the commission of an offence under this Act (whether or not any person has been proceeded against or convicted for the offence).
(2) The specified remediation work to be carried out by a person may include one or more of the following types of work--
(a) work to control, abate or mitigate the damage to the land, habitat, plant or animal concerned,
(b) work to maintain, remediate or restore the damaged land, habitat, plant or animal concerned (including replacing removed or dead plants or animals).
(3) A direction under this section may be varied or revoked by a further notice in writing.