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In forceRepair and maintenance of joint services
Part 4Miscellaneous provisions
32 Repair and maintenance of joint services
(1)
If 2 or more owners of land are jointly entitled to the use of a utility service, those persons are jointly liable for any repair or maintenance of that service by or on behalf of one of the owners if:
(a)
the owner who carried out the repair or maintenance or on whose behalf it is carried out is liable for that repair or maintenance as a user of the service, and
(b)
that liability does not arise from any fault of the owner by or on whose behalf the repair or maintenance is carried out.
(2)
This section is subject to any contract or arrangement between the owner and the provider of the utility service and to the provisions of any other Act.
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