WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 467
Chief executive or regulator may take action and recover costs
WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 467
Chief executive or regulator may take action and recover costs
467 Chief executive or regulator may take action and recover costs
(1) If a person to whom a compliance notice is given contravenes the notice by
not doing something, the chief executive or regulator may do the thing.
(2)
Subsection (3) applies if—
(a) under section 359(2) , a notice is taken to
be a compliance notice; and
(b) the person to whom the notice is given has
not complied with the notice by the day stated in the notice.
(3) The chief
executive may, instead of doing the thing under subsection (1) , take any
action the chief executive reasonably believes is necessary to prevent or
minimise the impact of the failure of the dam.
(4) If the chief executive or
regulator incurs expense in doing a thing under subsection (1) or (3) , the
chief executive or regulator must give the person a notice stating the amount
of the expense incurred.
(5) Any reasonable expenses incurred by the chief
executive or regulator in doing anything under subsection (1) or (3) may be
recovered by the chief executive or regulator as a debt.
(6) A debt under
subsection (5) bears interest at the rate stated in a regulation.
