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WATER AGENCIES (POWERS) ACT 1984 - SECT 69

69 .         Changes of ownership etc. to be notified to Corporation

        (1)         A person who —

            (a)         becomes or ceases to be the owner of; or

            (b)         not being the owner, becomes or ceases to be the occupier of; or

            (c)         being a person on whom the Corporation is authorised by the owner to serve notices or demands, ceases to be so authorised in relation to,

                any land liable to any rates or charges under this Act or a relevant Act and who fails, within 14 days thereafter, to give to the Corporation notice of the fact, commits an offence.

        Penalty: $50.

        (2)         A person who, after being requested to furnish that name by the Corporation or any officer authorised by the Corporation —

            (a)         being the occupier of any land, refuses or wilfully omits to disclose, or wilfully misstates, to the Corporation or officer making the request the name of the owner of the land or of the person receiving or authorised to receive the rents of the land; or

            (b)         being a person receiving or authorised to receive the rent of any land refuses or wilfully omits to disclose, or wilfully misstates to the Corporation or officer making the request the name of the owner of the land,

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        [Section 69 inserted by No. 25 of 1985 s. 16; amended by No. 73 of 1995 s. 41.]



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