WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 453
Chief executive may take action and recover costs
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 453
Chief executive may take action and recover costs
453 Chief executive may take action and recover costs
(1) This section applies if a resource tenure holder fails to comply with a
direction given under section 451.
(2) The chief executive may take the
action.
(3) If the chief executive takes the action, the chief executive may
give the holder a notice (a
"cost recovery notice" ) requiring the holder to pay the stated costs and
expenses reasonably incurred by the chief executive in taking the reasonable
steps.
(4) However, subsection (3) does not apply if the chief executive is
satisfied the holder had a reasonable excuse for not complying with the
direction.
(b) the location of the water bore to which the action
related;
(c) a description of the action taken;
(d) the amount of the costs
and expenses incurred;
(e) a description of the costs and expenses incurred;
(f) that if the holder does not pay the amount to the chief executive within
30 days after the day the notice is given, the chief executive may recover the
amount and any interest payable on the amount from the holder as a debt;
(g)
the contact details of the chief executive.
(6) If the holder does not pay
the amount stated in the cost recovery notice to the chief executive within 30
days after the day the notice is given, the chief executive may recover the
amount, and any interest payable on the amount, from the holder as a debt.
(7) A debt due under subsection (6) bears interest at the rate stated in a
regulation.