New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CROWN LANDS ACT 1989 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act:
"authorised inspector" means a person appointed under section 168B.
"Commonwealth lease" means a lease to which Part 8 of Schedule 2 to the Crown Lands (Continued Tenures) Act 1989 applies.
"Consumer Price Index" means the Consumer Price Index (All Groups Index) for Sydney published by the Australian Statistician.
"Consumer Price Index number", in relation to a quarter, means the number for that quarter appearing in the Consumer Price Index.
"Crown land" means land that is vested in the Crown or was acquired under the Closer Settlement Acts as in force before their repeal, not in either case being:

(a) land dedicated for a public purpose, or

(b) land that has been sold or lawfully contracted to be sold and in respect of which the purchase price or other consideration for the sale has been received by the Crown.

"Crown Lands Acts" means:

(a) the Acts repealed by section 2 of the Crown Lands Act of 1884 (except Act 22 Victoria No 17 and Act 23 Victoria No 4),

(b) the Acts repealed by the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913 ,

(c) the Acts repealed by this Act,

(d) the provisions of the Prickly-pear Act 1924 referred to in clause 5 (1) of Schedule 1 to the Prickly Pear Act 1987 ,

(e) the provisions of the Crown Lands (Amendment) Act 1932 repealed by the Miscellaneous Acts (Crown Lands) Amendment Act 1989 ,

(f) the Crown Lands (Continued Tenures) Act 1989 , and

(g) this Act.

"Department" means the Department of Lands.
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department.
"Eastern and Central Division" -see section 4 (2).
"filming project" has the same meaning as in the Local Government Act 1993 .
"government agency" means any public authority, and includes:

(a) a government department or State owned corporation, and

(b) a livestock health and pest authority,

but does not include a local council or a reserve trust within the meaning of Part 5.
"holding" means:

(a) an incomplete purchase, a perpetual lease, a term lease, a special lease or a permissive occupancy under the Crown Lands (Continued Tenures) Act 1989 , or

(b) a lease or licence under this Act.

"irrigation area" means an irrigation area constituted under the Wentworth Irrigation Act 1890 , the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Act 1910 or the Irrigation Act 1912 .
"land district" means a land district referred to in section 8 (1), or established under section 8 (1A) or (2), and includes:

(a) an administrative district established under section 9 of the Western Lands Act 1901 , and

(b) a development district declared under section 44B of this Act or section 35XB of the Western Lands Act 1901 .

"local land board", in applying a provision in which the expression occurs, means the local land board constituted under section 20 for the land district in which is situated the land in relation to which the provision applies.
"Lord Howe Island" has the same meaning as "Island" has in the Lord Howe Island Act 1953 .
"mineral" means:

(a) in relation to land not in a special land district, any substance prescribed as a mineral for the purposes of this Act, or

(b) in relation to land in a special land district, mineral within the meaning of the Mining Act 1992 .

"Ministerial Corporation" means the Lands Administration Ministerial Corporation constituted by section 13.
"public purpose", in relation to a provision of this Act, means any purpose for the time being declared by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a public purpose for the purposes of that provision.
"regulations" includes regulations under the Crown Lands (Continued Tenures) Act 1989 .
"special land district" means a special land district declared under section 8.
"the Register" means the Register kept under the Real Property Act 1900 .
"travelling stock reserve" has the same meaning as in the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 .
"Western Division" -see section 4 (2A).

(2) Crown land does not cease to be Crown land just because of the creation in respect of it of a folio of the Register in the name of “The State of New South Wales”.

(3) In this Act:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, in relation to a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.

(4) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.