5Valuer-General

5 Valuer-General

(1)  The Minister may appoint a State Service officer or State Service employee to be the Valuer-General and that person holds that office in conjunction with State Service employment.

(2)  Subject to the State Service Act 2000 , the Valuer-General is responsible for the direction, control and management of the valuation of land in accordance with this Act.

(3)  Without limiting subsection (2) , the Valuer-General has the following functions:

(a) to establish and maintain valuation rolls under this Act by means of such databases or formats as the Valuer-General thinks appropriate;

(b) to enter valuations in the valuation rolls and databases;

(ba) [Section 5 Subsection (3) amended by No. 39 of 2006, s. 5, Applied:01 Jan 2007] to determine adjustment factors as provided by Part 9A ;

(c) [Section 5 Subsection (3) amended by No. 39 of 2006, s. 5, Applied:01 Jan 2007] to be responsible for the administration of contracts made under this Act for valuation services;

(d) to make valuations or provide other advice as required by or under this or any other Act;

(e) to deal with objections and appeals against valuations made under this Act;

(f) to monitor the quality of valuation services performed by valuation contractors.

(4)  [Section 5 Subsection (4) inserted by No. 39 of 2006, s. 5, Applied:01 Jan 2007] Subsection (3)(c) does not prevent a rating authority from taking any action, with the approval of the Valuer-General, against a valuation contractor to recover loss arising from a contract for the provision of valuation services.