33Collection agency may require occupier to pay rent

33 Collection agency may require occupier to pay rent

(1) If any levy is due and unpaid in relation to leviable land, the collection agency may send a notice to the person liable to pay the levy.

(2) The notice must state—

(a) that after 14 days from the date the notice is sent, the occupier of the leviable land may be required by notice sent to that person to pay to the collection agency the rent then due or further rent as it falls due by that person for the land; and

(b) that the rent must be paid to the collection agency until the levy has been paid.

(3) A payment of rent by a person under this section is a discharge of the debt for that rent and must be treated as payment of rent for the purposes of any tenancy law.

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply if the person has agreed to pay any levy on that land.

See also section 35(4).

(5) If a person fails to pay any or all of the rent due under this section, the collection agency may recover the unpaid amount as a debt due to it by that person.