Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Hazardous Substances Control
25. Power of Director-General to require removal of hazardous substances from premises
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If, in the opinion of the Director‑General, any of the following items used, stored or kept in any premises is likely to threaten the health or safety of any person or to cause pollution of the environment, he or she may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of any premises to remove the item to a disposal facility:
premises
“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained under statutory authority or not;
any hazardous substance;
any material contaminated with a hazardous substance;
any equipment, device or pipeline contaminated with a hazardous substance.
The Director-General may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier upon whom a notice has been served under subsection (1) to furnish evidence that the item mentioned in the notice has been disposed of at a disposal facility in accordance with the notice.
Director-General
“Director-General” means the Director‑General of Environmental Protection appointed under section 3(1);
Any person who fails to comply with a notice made under subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000.