New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CROWN LANDS ACT 1989 - SECT 8

8 Land districts

(1) The Eastern and Central Division of the State is divided into land districts, as established and defined under the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913 immediately before its repeal.

(1A) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, establish land districts each comprising one or more irrigation areas or former irrigation areas that are within the Western Division.

(2) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, alter or abolish existing land districts or establish and define new land districts.

(3) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare any one or more land districts (whether in the Eastern and Central Division or the Western Division) to be a special land district. As far as practicable (but without affecting the power of the Minister to alter land districts or special land districts), a special land district is to consist of land within irrigation areas or former irrigation areas.

(4) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, alter or abolish special land districts or define new special land districts.