PORTS AND MARITIME ADMINISTRATION ACT 1995 - SECT 85E Removal of unauthorised works

PORTS AND MARITIME ADMINISTRATION ACT 1995 - SECT 85E

85E Removal of unauthorised works

(1) The Authority, Transport for NSW or the Port Authority of New South Wales may give notice to a person who is making use of any work carried out in contravention of section 85C or 85D requiring the person to stop making use of that work by a specified date.

(2) A person must not fail to comply with a notice given in accordance with subsection (1).

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(3) The Authority, Transport for NSW or the Port Authority of New South Wales may remove, or authorise the removal of, any work carried out in contravention of section 85C or 85D.

(4) The Authority, Transport for NSW or the Port Authority of New South Wales may cause or authorise any work or any thing removed in accordance with subsection (3) to be destroyed, stored or sold, or may sell the work on condition that it be removed.

(5) The Authority, Transport for NSW or the Port Authority of New South Wales may recover as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction the costs and expenses incurred by it in the removal, destruction, storage or sale of any work under this section from the person who carried out the work or who has made use of it after the receipt of a notice referred to in subsection (1).