WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 164
Recovery of unpaid rates and charges
WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 164
Recovery of unpaid rates and charges
164 Recovery of unpaid rates and charges
(1) The owner or occupier of a
landholding for which rates or charges are levied by a corporation must pay
the rates and charges to the corporation.
(2) If a landholding for which
rates or charges are levied is owned or occupied by more than one person the
following provisions apply--
(a) the rates or charges may be levied on one or
more of those persons and may be recovered by the corporation from any one or
more of those persons,
(b) the corporation is not entitled to recover more
than the total amount of the rates and charges (and any interest payable).
(3) If any land in a holding reverts to the Crown during any year for which
rates or charges are or are to be assessed, the person who immediately before
the reversion was the landholder of the land is liable for payment of only
that part of the rates or charges proportionate to the part of the year for
which the land was held by the person, and any excess payment by the person
must be refunded to the person.
Note : Rates and charges are a charge on the
land, procedures for the sale of land for overdue rates are set out in Part 4
of Chapter 7.
