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Local Government Act 1974

Divestment of land drainage schemes and water race schemes - Transfer petitions and transfer proposals

517G: Signatures to transfer petition

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"How to sign a petition to transfer something, and who can sign it"

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If you want to sign a transfer petition, you need to be a scheme user. You can sign the petition that was filed under section 517E. If there are multiple scheme users for the same property, each of them can sign the petition, but only one signature will be counted for that property.

When you sign the petition, you must write your name and the address of the property that you are signing for. You can only sign the petition once.

If you own land that is in multiple titles but is used as one property, it will be treated as one property for the purposes of signing the petition and for section 517F.

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Part 29ADivestment of land drainage schemes and water race schemes
Transfer petitions and transfer proposals

517GSignatures to transfer petition

  1. Subject to this section, every scheme user is entitled to sign the transfer petition filed under section 517E.

  2. Where there is more than 1 scheme user in respect of any property served by the land drainage scheme or water race scheme proposed to be transferred, every such scheme user is entitled to sign a petition requesting the transfer of the land drainage scheme or water race scheme; but not more than 1 signature in respect of any such property may be counted for the purpose of assessing the number of valid signatures to the petition.

  3. For the purposes of this section, and section 517F, land held in more than 1 title but occupied by the same person or persons and used as a single property is deemed to be 1 property.

  4. No person may sign any transfer petition more than once.

  5. Every scheme user who signs a petition filed under section 517E must state against the scheme user's signature—

  6. the scheme user's name; and
    1. the address of the property in respect of which the scheme user is entitled by virtue of subsection (1) to sign the petition.

      Notes
      • Section 517G: inserted, on , by section 11 of the Local Government Amendment Act (No 5) 1999 (1999 No 125).