20517 App M.pdf [As Published] · 132007.1259

Compliance notice

22.(1) An authorised person may give written notice in the form of a “compliance notice”
to any person and the owner of land if a person contravenes or is about to contravene a

provision of this local law or a condition of a permit.
(2) A compliance notice may—
(a) require the person to whom the notice is given to stop the contravention; and

(b) require the person to whom the notice is given to take specific action, within a
time specified in the notice, to remedy the contravention.
(3) A person to whom a compliance notice is given must comply with the compliance
notice.

Maximum Penalty—850 penalty units.

Reinstatement notice

23.(1) An authorised person may give written notice in the form of a “reinstatement
notice” to any person and or the owner of land who the authorised officer suspects on
reasonable grounds is responsible for interference with vegetation in contravention of this

local law.

(2) A reinstatement notice may require that the person to whom the notice is given,

either—

(a) _ take specified action to restore the vegetation or re-establish the vegetation; or
(b) compensate the community for the value of the vegetation as if the value of the

vegetation were a debt.
(3) A reinstatement notice may also require the person to whom the notice is given, to—

(a) make good any environmental damage directly or indirectly resulting from the

interference with the vegetation.

(4) If a reinstatement notice requires the planting of vegetation—
(a) _ the notice must specify the type of vegetation and where it is to be planted and the

period within which it is to be planted; and