New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL HOUSING ACT 1998 - SECT 12

12 General property functions

(1) The Aboriginal Housing Office may:

(a) generally control and manage the property owned by the AHO, and

(b) develop and implement effective asset and management strategies with respect to the property owned by the AHO.

(2) In exercising its functions, the AHO may lease, sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of or deal with any property owned by the AHO in such manner, and subject to such terms and conditions, as it thinks fit.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), the AHO may:

(a) provide, construct or relocate, or arrange for the provision, construction or relocation of, any of the following:

(i) housing,

(ii) utility services,

(iii) community facilities,

(iv) housing related infrastructure, and

(b) demolish any building on any land, and

(c) subdivide and re-subdivide any land, and consolidate subdivided or re-subdivided land, and

(d) set out and construct access roads on any land, and

(e) erect, alter, repair and renovate buildings and make other improvements to any land.

(4) The functions referred to in subsection (3) (b)-(e) are, if the land concerned is not owned by the AHO, exercisable by the AHO only with the permission of the owner of the land or other person having the control or management of the land.