New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE MINERALS ACT 1999 - SECT 402

402 Rehabilitation of damaged areas

(1) The regulations may provide for:

(a) the rehabilitation of an area in coastal waters that has been damaged or affected by offshore exploration or mining activities of a licence holder, and

(b) the recovery of costs and expenses incurred by the Minister in rehabilitating an area under regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (a).

(2) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) (a) may provide for the rehabilitation to be carried out by the Minister or someone else.

(3) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) (b) may provide for the recovery of costs and expenses by way of deduction from the licence holder’s security.