New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANNUAL REPORTS (DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1985 - SECT 17

17 Land register

(1) A Department Head shall, within such time or times as may be specified by the Director-General of the Department of Lands and in accordance with such directions as may be given by the Director-General, furnish to the Director-General details of:

(a) all land vested in or owned or occupied by, or subject to the control of, the appropriate Minister or the Department,

(b) the current use of that land,

(c) all land which is, at the time at which the details are furnished, considered by the Department Head to be essential to the operations of the Department, and

(d) all land which is, at the time at which the details are furnished, considered by the Department Head not to be essential to the operations of the Department, and

(e) such other matters relating to the land vested in or owned or occupied by, or subject to the control of, the appropriate Minister or the Department as the Director-General may determine.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) (e), the Director-General of the Department of Lands may require a Department Head to give detailed reasons and other relevant information to indicate why land to which subsection (1) (c) applies is considered by the Department Head to be essential to the operations of the Department.

(3) The Director-General of the Department of Lands shall cause to be kept a register which includes the details furnished to the Director-General under this section.

(4) The Director-General of the Department of Lands may exempt a Department Head from compliance with such of the provisions of this section as are specified in the exemption.

(5) An exemption may be granted generally or subject to such conditions as the Director-General of the Department of Lands may specify in the exemption or in relation to such matters as may be so specified.

(6) An exemption ceases to apply where the Director-General of the Department of Lands, by notice in writing, so informs the Department Head to whom the exemption was granted.