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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1960 - SECT 404

404 .         Notice to owner etc. in case of danger

                If the owner or occupier

                on whom notice mentioned in section 403(4) has been served

                does not

                within 35 days of that on which the notice is served upon him,

                comply

                with the notice,

                the Magistrates Court, on an application by the local government and on being satisfied that he has not so complied with all or any of the requisitions in the notice and that none of the requisitions in the notice is the subject of an application for review as described in section 403(6),

                may

                unless all or any of the requisitions in the notice are the subject of an application for review as described in section 403(6),

                order the person

                on whom the notice has been served to take down, repair, or otherwise secure to the satisfaction of the building surveyor of the local government, the building or such part of it as appears to the court to be in a dangerous state, within a time to be fixed by the order,

                and the court may

                make such order as to the costs of and incidental to the proceedings relating to the order as the court thinks fit,

                and if the order is not complied with

                by the person to whom it is directed, within the time so fixed,

                the local government may cause the building, or so much of it as is in a dangerous condition, to be taken down, repaired or otherwise secured in such manner as is necessary, and an order so made is not subject to appeal.

        [Section 404 amended by No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 55 of 2004 s. 674; No. 59 of 2004 s. 141.]



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