Tennant Creek (Flammable Undergrowth) By-laws 1989 (NT)

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

TENNANT CREEK (FLAMMABLE UNDERGROWTH) BY-LAWS 1989

As in force at 1 July 2008

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As in force at 1 July 2008

Tennant Creek (Flammable Undergrowth) By-laws 1989

By-laws under the Local Government Act 2008

1Citation

These By-laws may be cited as the Tennant Creek (Flammable Undergrowth) By-laws 1989.

2Crown to be bound

These By-laws bind the Crown in right of the Territory.

3Definitions

In these By-laws, unless the contrary intention appears:

council means the Barkly Shire Council.

flammable undergrowth means grass, weeds and other vegetation which, if not removed, may in the opinion of the council become flammable in normal seasonal conditions.

municipality means the former municipality of Tennant Creek.

4Council may require destruction of flammable undergrowth

• (1)

  The council may by notice in writing served on the occupier or, where there is no occupier, the owner of land in the municipality, direct the occupier or the owner, as the case may be, to remove all flammable undergrowth:

  • (a)

    on all of the land; or

  • (b)

    on that part of the land which is within 5 m of the boundaries of the land.

• (2)

  Where the owner or occupier of land on whom a notice under clause (1) has been served, fails within 14 days of the service of the notice to comply with that notice, such officer, employees or agents as the council directs may, subject to the Act, enter the land to which the notice relates and carry out the work required to be carried out by that notice.

• (3)

  The costs and expenses reasonably incurred by the council in carrying out or causing to be carried out work under clause (2) shall be a debt due and payable to the council by the occupier or the owner, as the case may be, of the land.

ENDNOTES

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  KEY

Key to abbreviations

 

amd = amended od = order

app = appendix om = omitted

bl = by-law pt = Part

ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule

cl = clause rem = remainder

div = Division renum = renumbered

exp = expires/expired rep = repealed

f = forms s = section

Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule

hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision

ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation

lt = long title sub = substituted

nc = not commenced

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  LIST OF LEGISLATION

Tennant Creek (Flammable Undergrowth) By-laws (SL No. 20, 1989)
Notified	9 August 1989
Commenced	9 August 1989
Local Government (Consequential Amendments) Act 2008 (Act No. 28, 2008)
Assent date	14 November 2008
Commenced	1 July 2008 (s 2)

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  GENERAL AMENDMENTS

General amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table of amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation Amendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22 of 2018) to: bl 1.

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  LIST OF AMENDMENTS

bl 3                    amd Act No. 28, 2008, s 4