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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1960 - SECT 406

406 .         Power to remove occupants from dangerous building

                When a building has been certified by the building surveyor of the local government or other competent person carrying out a survey of it to be dangerous to occupants of it, the Magistrates Court may, on an application by the local government, if satisfied of the correctness of the certificate, by order direct the occupants of the building to quit the building and may issue a warrant directed to a member of the Police Force of the State authorising and commanding him to remove them from the building if the order of the court is not obeyed and he shall execute the warrant according to its tenor, and an order so made or a warrant so issued is not subject to appeal.

        [Section 406 amended by No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 59 of 2004 s. 141; No. 11 of 2007 s. 12.]

        [Heading inserted by No. 96 of 1966 s. 13.]



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