606BReview of cost of coastal protection service charges on request of ratepayer

606B Review of cost of coastal protection service charges on request of ratepayer

606B Review of cost of coastal protection service charges on request of ratepayer

(1) A council must, on request, provide a person who is liable to pay an annual charge for coastal protection services with a report prepared by an independent person on the cost to the council of providing those services.

(2) A request for a report under subsection (1) is to be accompanied by a fee determined by the council to cover the council’s reasonable costs in providing the report.

(3) If a council provides a report to a person under subsection (1) the council is to make the report available to all other persons liable to pay an annual charge in relation to the same services.

(4) A council is not required to provide a report under subsection (1) to a person if the council has in the previous 3 years provided or made available to the person such a report in relation to the same coastal protection services.

(5) Despite subsection (2), a fee is not required to accompany the following requests—

(a) a request made during the first year that an annual charge is made and levied on the relevant parcel of land,

(b) a request made during the year following an increase in the annual charge by a percentage that is greater than the percentage specified in an order under section 506 for the year concerned.

s 606B: Ins 2010 No 78, Sch 2 [4].