(1) This section applies if—
(a) the director-general issues a public unleased land permit subject to a financial assurance condition; and
(b) the public unleased land is seriously or materially damaged because of the use of the public unleased land under the public unleased land permit; and
(c) the director-general incurs, or will incur, expenses in repairing the damage to the public unleased land; and
(d) the damage is the kind of harm for which the financial assurance may be claimed or realised; and
(e) the damage was not permitted under this Act.
(2) The director-general may recover the reasonable expenses of repairing the damage by making a claim on or realising the financial assurance.