Costs of taking action to be debt due and payable
101 Costs of taking action to be debt due and payable
Where a person does an act that is prohibited, or fails to do an action the person is required to do, by or under this Act, the NT EPA may cause to be carried out works or acts that are, in the opinion of the NT EPA, necessary to:
prevent pollution, or environmental harm resulting from pollution, that is caused by the person's action or failure to act;
or
clean up pollution likely to have been caused by the person's action or failure to act and rectify environmental harm arising from pollution likely to have been caused by that action or failure.
A person authorised in writing by the NT EPA to carry out works or acts for the purposes of subsection (1) in premises or on land on behalf of the NT EPA may enter the premises (unless they are residential premises) or land and carry out the works or acts.
The amount of the expense incurred by the Territory in carrying out works or acts under subsection (1) is a debt due and payable to the Territory by the person whose action or failure caused or was likely to have caused the pollution or environmental harm.
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