65Agents and trustees

65 Agents and trustees

65 Agents and trustees

With respect to every agent, and with respect also to every trustee, the following provisions shall apply:

(a) He or she shall be answerable as contributor for the doing of all such things as are required to be done by virtue of this Act in respect of the land controlled or held by him or her in his or her representative capacity and for the payment of contribution thereon.

(b) He or she shall in respect of that land furnish information and be assessed thereon but in his or her representative capacity only, and that information and assessment shall, except as otherwise provided by this Act, be separate and distinct from any other.

(c) If he or she is the trustee of the estate of a deceased person, the information shall be the same, as far as practicable, as the deceased person, if living, would have been liable to furnish.

(d) Where as agent or trustee he or she pays contribution, he or she is hereby authorised to recover the amount so paid from the person on whose behalf he or she paid it, or to deduct it from any money in his or her hands belonging to that person.

(e) He or she is hereby authorised and required to retain from time to time, out of any money which comes to him or her in his or her representative capacity, so much as is sufficient to pay the contribution which is or will become due in respect of the land.

(f) He or she is hereby made personally liable for the contribution payable in respect of the land if, while the contribution remains unpaid, without the consent in writing of the Authority he or she alienates, mortgages, charges, or disposes of any real or personal property, which is controlled or is held by him or her in his or her representative capacity, but he or she shall not otherwise be personally liable for the contribution.

(g) If he or she is a trustee, he or she may raise whatever moneys are necessary in order to pay the contribution by mortgage or charge with or without power of sale of any real or personal property held by him or her as trustee, and may apply the money so raised or any other moneys in his or her possession as such trustee in paying the contribution.

(h) He or she is hereby indemnified for all payments which he or she makes in pursuance of this Act, or by requirements of the Authority.

(i) For the purpose of ensuring payment of contribution, the Authority shall have the same remedies against all land or other property of any kind vested in or under the control or management or in the possession of any agent or trustee, as it would have against the land or other property of any other contributor in respect of contribution, and in as full and ample a manner.