ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 326A
Administering authority’s costs of environmental audit or report
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 326A
Administering authority’s costs of environmental audit or report
326A Administering authority’s costs of environmental audit or report
(1) This section applies if the administering authority has, under section 326, incurred costs in conducting or commissioning an environmental audit or
preparing an environmental report about the audit.
(2) The holder of the
relevant environmental authority or PRCP schedule, or owner of the recognised
accreditation program, given an information notice for the audit decision
under section 326(3) must pay the amount of the costs if—
(a) the costs
were appropriately and reasonably incurred; and
(b) the administering
authority has asked the holder or owner to pay the amount.
(3) The
administering authority may recover the amount as a debt.
(4) In this
section—
"audit decision" , in relation to costs incurred in conducting or
commissioning an environmental audit or preparing an environmental report
about the audit, means the decision under section 326(1) to conduct or
commission the audit or prepare the report.