New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PESTICIDES ACT 1999 - SECT 22

22 Fee

(1) The purpose of this section is to enable the Environment Protection Authority to recover the administrative costs of preparing and giving clean-up notices.

(2) A person who is given a clean-up notice must within 30 days pay the prescribed fee (if any) to the Environment Protection Authority.

(2A) No fee is payable in relation to the revocation or variation of a clean-up notice.

(3) The Environment Protection Authority may, on the application of a person to whom subsection (2) applies, extend the time for payment of the fee.

(3A) The Environment Protection Authority may waive payment of the whole or any part of the fee.

(4) A person who does not pay the fee within the time provided under this section is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $20,000.