Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

WASTE MANAGEMENT AND POLLUTION CONTROL ACT - SECT 66

(1) The Minister may enter into an agreement (in this section called a performance agreement) with a person who is -

(a) conducting an activity that causes, or is likely to cause, pollution resulting in environmental harm or that generates or is likely to generate waste; or

(b) the owner or occupier of land that is polluted.

(2) A performance agreement -

(a) is to be in writing;

(b) may provide that the person is to undertake or cause to have undertaken a program specified in the agreement, being a program to protect, restore or enhance the environment or to improve waste management or the prevention, reduction, control, rectification or clean up of pollution or environmental harm resulting from pollution; and

(c) may specify that the Territory is to provide assistance in relation to the performance of the program.

(3) Where the Minister enters into a performance agreement with a person, the agreement has effect as a contract binding on the Territory and the person with whom the agreement is entered into.