Request for review of assessment to Director
25(1)A person who receives a real property assessment notice under section 21 or 22.1 or an amended real property assessment notice under section 22 may request that the Director, by a request for review of assessment, review the real property assessment if the request is made within 30 days after the real property assessment notice or the amended real property assessment notice is mailed.
25(2)The Director shall maintain a register of every request for review of assessment received under subsection (1).
25(3)Every person who makes a request for review of assessment under subsection (1) shall set out in the request his or her full name, address including postal code and telephone number and provide full, complete and detailed reasons for objecting to the assessment.
25(4)The Director shall reconsider an assessment referred to in subsection (1) and shall vacate, confirm or vary the assessment, then send a notice to the person of his or her decision by mailing to the person a copy of all entries in the Review Register pertaining to the request for review of assessment together with a copy of the form for giving notice of appeal to the Board.
25(5)When a request for review of assessment under subsection (1) applies to assessment on real property located in a local government or other taxing authority, the Director shall notify the local government or other taxing authority of the decision by sending to it a copy of all entries in the Review Register pertaining to the request for review of assessment.
25(6)The decision of the Director under this section has effect from the first day of January in the year for which the assessment referred to in subsection (1) was made and any changes required to be made in the real property assessment list as a result of that decision shall be made within 30 days after the Director has made the decision.
25(7)Repealed: 1998, c.11, s.6
25(8)A change in an assessment arising out of a decision of any request for review of assessment or appeal under this Act shall not affect any other assessment unless that other assessment is itself changed as a result of a request for review of assessment or appeal under this Act.
1973, c.18, s.7; 1975, c.8, s.4; 1977, c.6, s.12; 1982, c.7, s.13; 1983, c.12, s.24; 1989, c.N-5.01, s.31; 1991, c.27, s.3; 1992, c.40, s.2; 1996, c.19, s.2; 1998, c.11, s.6; 2001, c.32, s.1; 2008, c.56, s.6; 2017, c.20, s.5; 2019, c.11, s.1