VALUATION OF LAND ACT 1916 - SECT 13H Recommendations for valuations

VALUATION OF LAND ACT 1916 - SECT 13H

13H Recommendations for valuations

(1) Any valuation for which the Valuer-General is required under section 13C to invite tenders for contested valuation service contracts must, and any other valuation under this Act may, be made by the Valuer-General on the recommendation of a contract valuer.

(2) For the purpose of formulating recommendations in connection with a valuation, a contract valuer may exercise any relevant functions or discretions that expressly or impliedly belong to the Valuer-General and--

(a) that are specifically authorised by the relevant valuation service contract to be exercised by the contract valuer, or

(b) that, although not so specifically authorised, are ancillary to or otherwise relate to the making of the valuation.

This subsection has effect subject to the valuation service contract.

(3) The Valuer-General may make a valuation on the basis of such a recommendation--

(a) without independently exercising relevant functions or discretions referred to in subsection (2), and

(b) without independently assessing the accuracy of the recommendation.

(4) Without limiting section 13F, the Valuer-General is to monitor and make general assessments of the standards of accuracy of recommendations.

(5) The Valuer-General may request that a recommendation be revised by the contract valuer who prepared it.

(6) If a contract valuer under a contested valuation service contract--

(a) fails to make a recommendation in respect of a valuation or class of valuations to which the contract applies, or

(b) fails to revise a recommendation, in respect of a valuation or class of valuations to which the contract applies, in accordance with a request under subsection (5),

the Valuer-General may make the valuation or valuations concerned without the need for such a recommendation.

(7) Alternatively, the Valuer-General may negotiate and enter into an uncontested valuation service contract with some other contract valuer to provide the relevant recommendations.