Procedures for selling land
142 Procedures for selling land
This section sets out the procedures that a local government must follow when selling land for overdue rates or charges.
The local government must first offer the land for sale by auction.
The local government must prepare an auction notice.
At least 14 days, but not more than 35 days, before the day of the auction, the local government must—
give a copy of the auction notice to everyone who was given a notice of intention to sell the land; and
publish the auction notice on the local government’s website; and
display the auction notice in a conspicuous place in the local government’s public office, until the day of the auction; and
display the auction notice in a conspicuous place on the land unless it is not reasonably practicable to do so because the land is in a remote location or difficult to access; and
take all reasonable steps to publish the auction notice in another way to notify the public about the sale of the land.
Examples of other ways to publish the auction notice—
publish the auction notice in a newspaper that is circulating generally in the local government area or on a real estate trading website
However, if—
the land is a building unit; and
it is not practicable to display the auction notice in a conspicuous place on the land;
the notice may be displayed in a conspicuous part of the common property for the building units.
In this section—
auction notice, for a sale of land by auction, means a written notice stating—
the day, time and place of the auction; and
a full description of the land.
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