LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 172
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 172
172—Chief executive officer to keep assessment record
(1) The chief
executive officer of a council must ensure that a record (the "assessment
record ) is kept in which is entered—
(a)
—
(i)
a brief description of each separate piece of
rateable land in the area; and
(ii)
the rateable value of the land; and
(b) if a
service charge is imposed by the council on non-rateable land in the
area—a brief description of that land; and
(c) the
name and address of the owner of the land; and
(d) if
the owner is not the principal ratepayer in respect of the land—the name
and address of the principal ratepayer; and
(e) so
far as is known to the chief executive officer, the name of any occupier of
the land (not being an owner or principal ratepayer in respect of the land);
and
(f) if
the land is rated on the basis of a particular land use—that land use;
and
(g)
other prescribed information.
(2) An occupier of
land may, with the consent of the owner, apply to the chief executive officer
of a council, in a manner and form approved by the chief executive officer, to
have the occupier's name entered in the assessment record as the principal
ratepayer in respect of the land.
(3) If an application
is duly made under subsection (2), the chief executive officer must enter
the occupier's name in the assessment record as the principal ratepayer.
(4) Despite
subsection (1), if the chief executive officer is satisfied that the
inclusion in the assessment record of the name or address of a person would
place at risk the personal safety of that person, a member of that person's
family or any other person, the chief executive officer may suppress the name
or address from the assessment record.
(5) If the
chief executive officer is satisfied that a person's address is suppressed
from the roll under the Electoral Act 1985 , the chief executive officer
must—
(a) if
the person's residential address is included in respect of rateable property
that the person owns but does not occupy—suppress the person's
residential address from the assessment record;
(b) if
the person's residential address is rateable land described in the assessment
record—suppress the person's name from the assessment record in relation
to that land.
(6) The
chief executive officer may, as he or she thinks fit—
(a) keep
the assessment record in any form that allows for the accurate recording of
information and easy access to that information; and
(b) make
any alteration to the assessment record that may be necessary to keep the
record in a correct and up-to-date form.