New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CROWN LANDS ACT 1989 - SECT 44B

44B Development districts

(1) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare any land within the Western Division to be a development district for the purposes of this Division.

(2) Such a declaration must designate the purposes for which a special purpose lease may be granted over land in the development district established by the declaration.

(3) A purpose may not be designated under subsection (2) unless it is an approved purpose.

(4) The following purposes are approved for the purposes of subsection (3):

(a) the construction and operation of facilities for the harnessing of energy from any source (including the sun or wind) and its conversion into electrical energy,

(b) such other purposes as may be approved by proclamation on the recommendation of the Minister.

(5) A recommendation for such a proclamation may not be made unless the Minister has consulted with the Minister administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 as to the terms of the recommendation, but a proclamation is not invalid merely because this requirement is not complied with.

(6) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, alter the boundaries of, or abolish, any development district or, subject to subsections (3) and (4), vary the designated purposes for the district.

(7) A special purpose lease is not affected merely because the whole or any part of the land over which it is granted ceases to be in a development district as a result of a notification referred to in subsection (6).