Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts80. Person to comply with abatement notice
(1) A person to whom a pollution abatement notice is issued, and his or her employees and agents, must not intentionally contravene or intentionally fail to comply with the notice.
Penalty: environmental offence level 3.
(2) A person to whom a pollution abatement notice is issued, and his or her employees and agents, must not contravene or fail to comply with the notice.
Penalty: environmental offence level 4.
(3) A person is not liable to prosecution for an offence against this Act by performing or failing to perform an action if the action or failure to act is in pursuance of a pollution abatement notice.
(4) A pollution abatement notice in relation to an object or land remains in force notwithstanding that the person to whom it is issued has ceased to be the owner or lessee of the object or land or the occupier of the land.