Terms & Conditions

About the EzyBill (email delivery) facility

This information is for persons who register to receive the Wakefield Regional Council rates notice via Email (EzyBill).

The following Terms and Conditions apply to the use of the facility to receive the above mentioned rates notice including the use of information provided by the facility.

Terms and Conditions

By accessing the facility you agree to the following:

  1. Wakefield Regional Council has an arrangement with Ezybill to electronically deliver rates notice via this facility.
  2. The information available from this facility (which includes downloadable material) is subject to copyright and is protected by laws of Australia and other countries through international treaties.
  3. Any links to third party websites or software on this site are provided solely as a convenience to you and such links should not be taken to imply any type of association, sponsorship, endorsement, monitoring, approval of, or responsibility for, the linked site or its content. These sites may be located in jurisdictions outside Australia and be subject to license or other types of agreements, policy and legislation relating to those sites. Should you decide to access any of the third party sites, you do so entirely at your own risk and Wakefield Regional Council shall not be held liable for any claims, losses, expenses, injuries or damage arising from that access.
  4. If you choose to use the facility you must first register with, and provide your details to, EzyBill and agree to the EzyBill Terms and Conditions of use.
  5. Upon your request to receive the nominated rates notice via the facility you acknowledge and agree:
    1. You are the property owner or liable for responding to and making payment of the rates notice and you will share this electronic rates notice with other persons so named as required;
    2. While you are registered with EzyBill for electronic service of rate notices, this does not negate your responsibility to advise the Wakefield Regional Council of any changes to your postal mail address;
    3. You will no longer receive a paper rates notice via the post from Council except where amounts fall overdue or the email sent is undeliverable;
    4. You will not be charged a fee by Wakefield Regional Council for accessing a copy of your rates notice in EzyBill;
    5. It may take up to one rates notice cycle for your EzyBill registration to take effect;
    6. By using this facility the rates notice will be deemed to have been delivered, presented, received and viewed by you once it has been received by EzyBill and that you will not otherwise receive these rates notice;
    7. If you change your email address and do not update your EzyBill registration details, you will be liable for any fines, interest or other costs accrued on any rate accounts affected;
    8. If you cease to own the property/move from the property you will need to unsubscribe your EzyBill registration for that property. Wakefield Regional Council will cancel your registration for the property when advised of a change of ownership on the title to the property;
    9. Wakefield Regional Council is not responsible for any delivery delays or failures by the facility;
    10. Wakefield Regional Council has the right to cease the arrangement to deliver rates notice via EzyBill at which time the rates notice will be sent as paper copies by post;
    11. You may unsubscribe for this facility at any time but you may continue to receive rates notice in your EzyBill for up to 30 days after you have unsubscribed while we process your request.
    12. Not all communications from Wakefield Regional Council will utilise EzyBill, you will still receive paper communications by post for other official communications;
    13. Only your rate notices are sent via EzyBill. All overdue, debt collection and any other related correspondence from Council will continue to be sent via ordinary post;
    14. These conditions and terms of use may be modified at any time by Wakefield Regional Council and you agree to continue to be bound by the terms of use as modified. Wakefield Regional Council will give you notice of these changes by publishing new terms and conditions of use available through EzyBill. Wakefield Regional Council will not separately notify you of these changes.