New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CENTENNIAL PARK AND MOORE PARK TRUST ACT 1983 - SECT 20

20 Grant of leases, easements and licences

(1) In this section, "easement" includes an easement without a dominant tenement referred to in section 88A of the Conveyancing Act 1919 .

(2) The Trust may, for the purpose of the provision of services to be enjoyed in connection with the Trust lands and consistently with the good management of those lands, from time to time and upon such terms and conditions as are approved by the Minister, grant:

(a) subject to subsection (3), leases of parts of the Trust lands,

(b) easements through, upon or in the Trust lands:

(i) for the construction of pipelines, the laying or re-laying of cables or the construction of any apparatus to be used in connection with those pipelines or cables,

(ii) for the purpose of providing access to the dwellings situated on or within those lands, or

(iii) for any other purpose it considers necessary and that would directly or indirectly assist in the attainment of its objects, and

(c) licences for the use of parts of the Trust lands.

(3) A lease granted pursuant to subsection (2) (a) may not have a term that, together with the term of any further lease which may be granted pursuant to an option contained in the lease, exceeds 20 years.

(4) Sections 88A and 181A of the Conveyancing Act 1919 apply to and in respect of an instrument purporting to grant an easement under subsection (2) (b).

(5) Without limiting the generality of subsection (2) (c), the Trust may, from time to time and upon such terms and conditions as are approved by the Minister, grant licences authorising entry upon the Trust lands for the purpose of the maintenance, re-laying or repair of any pipelines or cables or the maintenance or repair of any apparatus used in connection therewith, being pipelines, cables or apparatus situated on or in those lands at the commencement of this section.