67Enforcement of judgment

1. If payment is not made to satisfy a judgment for rates (including any costs, interest, and disbursements) within 3 months after the date of the judgment, the local authority may apply, in accordance with subsection (2), to the Registrar of the High Court to have the judgment enforced by sale or lease of the rating unit.

2. The local authority must forward to the Registrar—

3. a certificate, signed and dated by the chief executive officer of the local authority, stating—
   1. the date of the judgment:
   2. the amount of the judgment given against the ratepayer or other person:
   3. the name of the ratepayer or other person:
   4. the address of the rating unit that is subject to the judgment and its legal description and location; and
4. the fee as fixed by regulations made under section 156 of the Senior Courts Act 2016; and
5. evidence that the land is not land described in section 62A(1)(a) and (b).

6. Subsection (1) does not apply to—

7. land that is subject to enactments that prohibit the alienation or transfer of that land; or
8. land described in section 62A(1).

9. However, the local authority may, in respect of land described in subsection (3)(a),—

10. offer that land, or part of it, for lease under this section on terms that produce a yearly rent equivalent to the amount of rates payable on the whole of the land, together with 5% added for the recovery of expenses; or
11. if the ratepayer has an estate or interest in other land that is not subject to an enactment of the kind referred to in subsection (3), register a charging order on, and transfer the power to sell, that other land, or part of it, to produce the amount required to recover the unpaid rates, together with 5% added for the recovery of expenses.

12. Despite any other enactment, in the case of land that requires the consent of a Minister of the Crown before it may be leased, consent is not required for a lease under this section.