TENNANT CREEK (FLAMMABLE UNDERGROWTH) BY-LAWS 1989

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA TENNANT CREEK (FLAMMABLE UNDERGROWTH) BY-LAWS 1989 As in force at 1 July 2008 Table of provisions 1 Citation ............................................................................................ 1 2 Crown to be bound .......................................................................... 1 3 Definitions ........................................................................................ 1 4 Council may require destruction of flammable undergrowth ............ 1 ENDNOTES -- 1 of 5 -- -- 2 of 5 -- NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA ____________________ As in force at 1 July 2008 ____________________ TENNANT CREEK (FLAMMABLE UNDERGROWTH) BY-LAWS 1989 By-laws under the Local Government Act 2008 1 Citation These By-laws may be cited as the Tennant Creek (Flammable Undergrowth) By-laws 1989. 2 Crown to be bound These By-laws bind the Crown in right of the Territory. 3 Definitions 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. 4 Council 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 of 5 -- Tennant Creek (Flammable Undergrowth) By-laws 1989 2 (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. -- 4 of 5 -- ENDNOTES Tennant Creek (Flammable Undergrowth) By-laws 1989 3 ENDNOTES 1 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 2 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) 3 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. 4 LIST OF AMENDMENTS bl 3 amd Act No. 28, 2008, s 4 -- 5 of 5 --