Section 474 — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Assistance in complying with conservation orders

(1) On behalf of the Commonwealth, the Secretary may provide assistance to a person (other than a Commonwealth agency) to comply with prohibitions, restrictions or requirements imposed on a person by a conservation order. (2) The assistance may take any one or more of the following forms: (a) payment of money; (b) provision of goods; (c) provision of labour; (d) provision of other services. (3) The value of the assistance must not exceed that which the Secretary thinks are the reasonable and direct costs of complying with the prohibitions, restrictions or requirements in question. (4) Assistance given under this section must be taken into account in determining compensation payable under section 519.