Recovery of costs of and compensation for exercise of remedial power
80R Recovery of costs of and compensation for exercise of remedial power
The State may recover from the responsible person as a debt any—
reasonable costs the State, or an authorised person under section 80L, incurs in exercising a remedial power; and
compensation payable by the State under section 80P in relation to the exercise of the remedial power.
Note—
For additional orders that may be made on conviction, see section 118.
However, in any proceeding to recover the costs, any relevant net proceeds of sale mentioned in section 80Q must be deducted from the amount claimed for the costs.
In this section—
relevant net proceeds of sale means proceeds of sale under which the thing sold was the property of the responsible person immediately before its removal under section 80Q.
responsible person means the holder, or former holder, of the 1923 Act petroleum tenure in relation to which the remedial powers were exercised.
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