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CONTAMINATED SITES ACT 2003 - SECT 86

CONTAMINATED SITES ACT 2003 - SECT 86

86 .         Evidentiary provisions

        (1)         In proceedings for an offence under this Act, an averment in a prosecution notice that —

            (a)         a specified notice under this Act was given, or was given to a specified person or at a specified time;

            (b)         specified land comprises, or at a specified time comprised, all, or part, of a site, classified as of a specified category;

            (c)         a specified person is, or at a specified time was, the owner or occupier of specified land;

            (d)         a specified person is, or at a specified time was, the person responsible for remediation of a specified site, or the person responsible for remediation of that site to a specified extent; and

            (e)         a specified certificate is a certificate of contamination audit under section 63,

                is to be taken to have been proved unless the contrary is shown.

        (2)         In subsection (1) —

        specified means specified in the prosecution notice.

        [Section 86 amended: No. 84 of 2004 s. 80.]