(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.
