New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHIPPING NORTON LAKE AUTHORITY ACT 1977 - SECT 15

15 Certain land may be vested in, or granted to, Authority

(1) The Authority may, by notification published in the Gazette:

(a) close any public road described or referred to in the notification that is within the development area, or

(b) revoke the setting apart, dedication (otherwise than as a public road) or reservation under any Act of any land described or referred to in the notification that is within the development area.

(2) Upon the publication of a notification under subsection (1):

(a) any road closed by the notification vests in the Authority for the purposes of this Act freed and discharged from any rights of the public or any person thereto as a highway, and

(b) any land in respect of which a revocation under subsection (1) (b) is effected is hereby vested in the Authority for the purposes of this Act freed and discharged from any trusts, but subject to any lease or licence, affecting it immediately before publication of the notification.

(3) The Authority shall not be required to pay, by way of compensation or otherwise, to the Crown, or to any person or public authority, any amount in respect of the closure of any road under subsection (1) (a) or the vesting of any land under subsection (1) (b).

(4) A reference in any agreement with a public authority in force immediately before the commencement of this Act to closure of a road does not include a reference to closure of a road under subsection (1) (a).