New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WESTERN LANDS ACT 1901 - SECT 18B

18B Recovery of contributions from adjoining landowners

(1) This section applies in circumstances in which an order under section 18A (1) (a) apportions the costs of complying with the order between two or more persons, as referred to in section 18A (2).

(2) If, in complying with the order, a person incurs costs in excess of his or her due proportion under the order, the person may recover the excess, as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction, from any other person or persons to whom the order apportions the costs.

(3) In any proceedings for recovery of such a debt, the certificate of the Commissioner as to the making and contents of the order is evidence of the matters set out in the certificate.