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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 252 Several owners

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 252

Several owners

(1)  If any sum of money is payable to the council under this Act by the owner of any land, and the rights of ownership of the land belong jointly, severally or successively, to more persons than one –
(a) the council may proceed –
(i) against each of those persons severally in respect of the ultimate liability under this section; or
(ii) against any of those persons who are known to it and may be conveniently served with the writ or other process jointly in respect of the whole sum; or
(iii) against the person seized in possession of the land in respect of the whole sum; and
(b) each of those persons is liable in the last resort to contribute in proportion to the value of the interest in the land; and
(c) if any of those persons cannot be found or made a party to the proceedings for contribution, the others are liable rateably for that person's contribution.
(2)  Any person may obtain valuations under the Valuation of Land Act 2001 of all interests in land which affect the prosecution or defence of a claim to which this section applies.
(3)  Nothing in this section affects the operation of the rules of equity or the Settled Land Act 1884 .