National Environment Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, 2008 (Act No. 24 of 2008)Chapter 7 : Protection of Coastal ResourcesPart 1 : Assessing, avoiding and minimising adverse effects61. Failure to comply with certain notices |
If a person fails to comply with a notice issued in terms of section 59(1) or (5) or section 60(1) which requires that person to carry out any specific action, or if the person responsible is not identified after publication of a notice in terms of section 60(5), the Minister or the MEC who issued the notice may instruct appropriate persons to—
| (a) | carry out what is required by the notice; and |
| (b) | recover from the person to whom the notice was addressed, or in the circumstances referred to in section 60(4) from any person subsequently found to be responsible for the structure, the costs reasonably incurred in carrying out the required action. |