New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAND ACQUISITION (JUST TERMS COMPENSATION) ACT 1991 - SECT 43A

43A Amendment or rescission of compensation notice

(1) An authority of the State may, by a further notice, amend a compensation notice to correct a clerical error or obvious mistake.

(2) An authority of the State must, by a further notice, amend a compensation notice to correct the amount of compensation offered if the Valuer-General changes his or her determination of the amount of compensation to be offered.

(3) A further notice under this section is to be given in the same manner as the compensation notice concerned was given.

(4) A compensation notice cannot be amended under this section after the offer of compensation in the notice has been accepted.

(5) An amendment of a compensation notice by a further notice under this section has effect--

(a) from the date of the original notice (or a later date specified in the further notice) if there has been no change in the amount of compensation offered, or

(b) from the date of the further notice if there has been such a change.

(6) If an amendment made to a compensation notice under this section takes effect on a day other than the day on which the original notice was received by the former owner, the notice is taken, for the purposes of sections 45 and 66, to have been received by the former owner on the day on which the amendment takes effect.

(7) If an acquisition notice is rescinded, the compensation notice relating to the acquisition is also rescinded.