Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 147

147 Compensation for damage or loss caused

(1) A local government 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 that 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 local government must pay the person compensation.

(3) The compensation equals—

(a) the amount agreed between the person and local government; or

(b) if the person and local government 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.