VALUATION OF LAND ACT 1960 - SECT 7A Restriction on payment of valuers for general valuations

VALUATION OF LAND ACT 1960 - SECT 7A

S. 7A(1) amended by Nos 94/2009 s. 9, 58/2012 s. 120(2), 67/2017 s. 47.

    (1)     A council must not pay any valuer who is not a full-time member of the council's staff for any work in respect of a general valuation for that council unless the valuer-general has issued a certificate of satisfactory valuation or valuation progress in respect of the valuation.

    (2)     Despite subsection (1), a council may make such a payment if—

        (a)     it notifies the Valuer-general in writing that it intends to do so; and

        (b)     the Valuer-general fails to give it, within 30 days after the notification, either—

              (i)     a certificate of satisfactory valuation or valuation progress; or

              (ii)     a written notice setting out the matters that need to be rectified before he or she will issue such a certificate.

S. 7B inserted by No. 94/2009 s. 10.