§ 34 — Contribution between taxable persons jointly liable

34. Where 2 or more persons are liable for the same land betterment charge payable for a chargeable consent given in relation to a development or subdivision of, or a controlled activity with respect to, any land, any one of them who has paid the whole of the land betterment charge (called A) —(a)

may recover from any other person jointly liable with A an amount which bears to the amount of land betterment charge so paid the same proportion as the value of the estate or interest in the land of the other person bears to the total of the values of the estates or interests in the land of all persons liable for that land betterment charge; and

(b)

may —(i)

sue for that firstmentioned amount in any court of competent jurisdiction as money paid to the use of that other person at that other person’s request; or

(ii)

retain or deduct that firstmentioned amount out of any moneys in A’s hands belonging or payable to that other person.