Section 20Part 3 — Control of Development of Land
Supplementary provisions as to enforcement
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If, within the period specified in a enforcement notice, or within such extended period as the Director may allow, any steps required by the enforcement notice to be taken (other than the discontinuance of any use of land) have not been taken, the Director may enter on the land and take those steps and may recover as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction from the person who is then the owner of the land any expenses reasonably incurred by the Director in that behalf; and if that person, having been entitled to appeal to the Authority under section 19, has failed to make such an appeal, that person shall not be entitled in proceedings under this subsection to dispute the validity of the action taken by the Director upon any ground that could have been raised by such an appeal.
Any expenses incurred by the owner or occupier of any land for the purposes of complying with an enforcement notice served under section 18, in respect of any development and any sums paid by the owner of any land under subsection (1) in respect of the expenses of the Director in taking steps required to be taken by such an enforcement notice, shall be deemed to be incurred or paid for the use and at the request of the person by whom the development was carried out.
Where, by virtue of an enforcement notice, any use of land is required to be discontinued, or any conditions are required to be complied with in respect of any use of land or in respect of the carrying out of operations thereon, then a person who, without the grant of permission in that behalf under this Part, uses the land or causes or permits to be carried out those operations, in contravention of the enforcement notice, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine of two hundred dollars for every day after the first day during which the use is so continued.
Nothing in this Part shall be construed as requiring permission to be obtained thereunder for the use of any land for the purpose for which it could lawfully have been used under this Part if the development in respect of which an enforcement notice served under section 18 had not been carried out.