LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 6.55

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 6.55

6.55 .         Recovery of rates and service charges

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2) and the Rates and Charges (Rebates and Deferments) Act 1992 rates and service charges on land are recoverable by a local government from —

                  (i)         the owner at the time of the compilation of the rate record; or

                  (ii)         a person who whilst the rates or service charges are unpaid becomes the owner of the land.

        (2)         A person who, by virtue of an Act relating to bankruptcy or insolvency or to the winding up of companies, has become the owner of land in the capacity of a trustee or liquidator, is not on that account personally liable to pay, out of the person’s own money, rates or service charges which are already due on, or become due on that land while that person is the owner in that capacity.