New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsIn this Part:
"owner", in relation to purchase-tenure land, means:
(a) where the land has not been brought under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900 the holder or the owner, subject to mortgage, of the prescribed lease from the crown immediately before the application for the purchase of the land was granted under the Crown Lands (Continued Tenures) Act 1989 or the Western Lands Act 1901 , as the case may be, or, where the title of that holder or owner has devolved or been transferred, any successor of that holder or owner, but does not include a mortgagee of the land, or
(b) where the land has been brought under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900 -the registered proprietor of the land or, where the registered proprietor holds the land as mortgagee, the mortgagor, or any successor of the mortgagor, for the time being entitled to the equity of redemption."prescribed lease from the Crown" means a conditional lease (not being a conditional lease applied for before the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten), a settlement lease, a Crown-lease or a special lease granted under the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913 , a lease under the Western Lands Act 1901 or a prickly-pear lease granted under the Prickly-pear Act 1924 , but does not include any such lease of land having an area of 2 hectares or less.
(a) in respect of any provision of this Part relating to prescribed leases from the Crown granted or confirmed under the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913 or the Prickly-pear Act 1924 -the Secretary of the Department of Lands or any officer of that Department authorised by that Secretary to act for the purposes of that provision, and
(b) in respect of any provision of this Part relating to prescribed leases from the Crown granted under the Western Lands Act 1901 -the Western Lands Commissioner or any officer employed in the administration of the Western Lands Act 1901 authorised by the Western Lands Commissioner to act for the purposes of that provision."purchase-tenure land" means land held under a prescribed lease from the Crown which has been contracted to be sold under the Crown Lands Acts or the Western Lands Act 1901 .