18Refusal of replacement lease

18 Refusal of replacement lease

(1)  If the lessee or licensee refuses to enter into the replacement lease, the lessee or licensee must remove the shack, together with any other improvements, from the shack site and rehabilitate the shack site within such reasonable period of time not exceeding 36 months and in such manner as the Minister by notice given to the lessee or licensee specifies.

(2)  For the purposes of subsection (1) , the lessee or licensee is taken to have refused to enter into the replacement lease if, within 60 days of the day on which notice of the offer of the replacement lease is served, the lessee or licensee –

(a) notifies the Minister that he or she does not wish to enter into the replacement lease; or

(b) fails to enter into the replacement lease.