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WATER SERVICES LICENSING ACT 1995 - SECT 46F

46F .         Assets no longer required

        (1)         If the Minister is satisfied that the use, or further use, of an asset is not necessary or expedient for the performance of the licensee’s functions and the statutory asset owner consents to the making of the order, the Minister may make and publish in the Gazette an order extinguishing the rights of the statutory asset owner in the asset if it is a fixture or requiring the statutory asset owner to remove the asset if it is not a fixture.

        (2)         The order is to specify the statutory asset owner, the assets, and the affected land, and is to identify whether or not a specified asset is a fixture.

        (3)         The order may operate by reference to schedules which — 

            (a)         need not be published in the Gazette ; but

            (b)         must be available for inspection by the public at a place identified in the order.

        (4)         Upon the publication of the order in the Gazette  — 

            (a)         any right existing before the publication of the order in a specified asset that is a fixture is extinguished and it merges with the land that was the affected land; and

            (b)         the statutory asset owner is required, as soon as is practicable, to remove from the affected land a specified asset that is not a fixture.

        (5)         The extinguishment under this section of a right does not give rise to any right to compensation.

        (6)         An asset that would be a fixture if it were the property of the owner of the affected land is a fixture.

        [Section 46F inserted by No. 33 of 1997 s. 3.]



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