Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsS. 97(1) amended by No. 34/1997 s. 10.
(1) The owner must pay to the adjoining owner all costs and expenses necessarily incurred by the adjoining owner in assessing proposed protection work and in supervising the carrying out of protection work in respect of the adjoining property and—
(a) agreed between the adjoining owner and the owner; or
(b) in the absence of an agreement, determined by the Building Appeals Board under Part 10.
(2) The costs and expenses of an adjoining owner which are agreed or determined may be recovered in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due to the adjoining owner.