Local Government Act 1993

A rateable person (or the person’s agent) may apply to the council at any time—

for a review of a declaration that the person’s rateable land is within a particular category for the purposes of section 514, or

to have the person’s rateable land declared to be within a particular category for the purposes of that section.

An application must be in the approved form, must include a description of the land concerned and must nominate the category the applicant considers the land should be within.

The council must declare the land to be within the category nominated in the application unless it has reasonable grounds for believing that the land is not within that category.

If the council has reasonable grounds for believing that the land is not within the nominated category, it may notify the applicant of any further information it requires in order to be satisfied that the land is within that category. After considering any such information, the council must declare the category for the land.

The council must notify the applicant of its decision. The council must include the reasons for its decision if it declares that the land is not within the category nominated in the application.

If the council has not notified the applicant of its decision within 40 days after the application is made to it, the council is taken, at the end of the 40-day period, to have declared the land to be within its existing category.