New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PESTICIDES ACT 1999 - SECT 27

27 Fee

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

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

(2A) No fee is payable in relation to the revocation or variation of a prevention 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) The fee is not payable during the currency of an appeal against the prevention notice.

(5) If the decision of the Land and Environment Court on an appeal does not invalidate the prevention notice, the fee is payable within 30 days of the decision.

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

Maximum penalty: $20,000.