18.6. For the purposes of sections 18.1 to 18.5, the owner is the person in whose name the unit of assessment concerned is entered on the roll under Division I of Chapter V.
If the Government must pay a sum for the unit of assessment under section 210, 254 or 257, the Minister has, concurrently with the person referred to in the first paragraph, the owner’s rights and obligations under sections 18.1 to 18.5. For the purposes of subparagraph 2 of the second paragraph of section 18.4, the Minister is not bound by the information communicated to the assessor by the owner nor is the owner bound by that communicated by the Minister.