Queensland Consolidated Acts

CITY OF BRISBANE ACT 2010 - SECT 137

137 Compensation for damage or loss caused

(1) A council worker who enters a property—

(a) must not cause, or contribute to, damage to any structure or works on the property; and

(b) must take all reasonable steps to ensure the worker causes as little inconvenience, and does as little other damage, as is practicable in the circumstances.

(2) If a person incurs damage or loss because of the exercise, or purported exercise, of a power under this division (including the loss of the value of materials removed from a property, or the reduction in the value of the property, for example), the council must pay the person compensation.

(3) The compensation equals—

(a) the amount agreed between the person and the council; or

(b) if the person and the council can not agree, the amount that is decided by a court.

(4) The court may make any order about costs that the court considers just.