Western Australian Current Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 6.67

6.67 .         Release of property after payment of arrears

        (1)         Where, within 12 years of the taking of possession of any land by a local government under section 6.64, an entitled person pays to the local government all rates and service charges due and payable in respect of the land, the local government is required to give up possession of that land to the person unless it has exercised a power under section 6.64(1)(b), (c) or (d) in relation to the land.

        (2)         If the local government has granted a lease of the land referred to in subsection (1) and the term of the lease has not expired, the lease subsists for the balance of the term as if it had been made between the lessee and the entitled person.

        (3)         In this section —

        entitled person means the person who, if the local government had not taken possession of the land under section 6.64, would be entitled to possession of that land.