45Environmental levy charge on unserviced land

45 Environmental levy charge on unserviced land

45 Environmental levy charge on unserviced land

(1) The Corporation may, with the consent of the Minister, and, if so required by the operating licence must, require the owner of land that is not connected to a water main or sewer main (including land to which a main is not available for connection) but to which the Corporation proposes to make a sewer main available, to pay an environmental levy in relation to the land.

(2) An environmental levy imposed under this section may be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction as if it were a debt due to the Corporation.

(3) Despite section 42, an environmental levy imposed under this section is a charge on the land to which the levy relates.