New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY AND NATIONAL PARK ESTATE ACT 1998 - SECT 11

11 Adjustment of description of land transferred to national park estate

(1) The description of any land in Schedules 1-5 may be adjusted in accordance with this section.

(2) A description of land may be adjusted from time to time:

(a) to provide a more detailed description of the boundaries of the land that are shown on a map by heavy black edging, or

(b) to alter the boundaries of the land for the purposes of the effective management of national park estate land and State forest land, including adjustments to enable boundaries to follow distinctive land features, to provide access to land, to correct any inaccuracy in relation to land tenure included in the land description or to rationalise the boundaries of similar areas of land, or

(c) to include, remove or change a description of any easement or restriction to which the land is subject.

(3) An adjustment of the description of land may include an alteration with respect to whether land is added to (or created as a new) national park, nature reserve or flora reserve, or with respect to the name of any new national park, nature reserve or flora reserve.

(4) An adjustment of the description of land is to be made by the Director-General of National Parks and Wildlife by a notice published on the NSW legislation website that amends Schedules 1-5. Any such notice may only be published with the approval of the Minister administering the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 and the Minister administering the Forestry Act 1916 .

(5) The Director-General of National Parks and Wildlife is required to certify in any such notice that the adjustments effected by the notice will not result in any significant reduction in the size or value of national park estate land or State forest land.

(6) An adjustment of the description of land may only be made before 28 February 1999.

(7) If any of the land described in Schedules 1-5 on the commencement of those Schedules is not included in the adjusted description of the land, the land that is not so included is taken never to have been subject to or affected by this Part or the relevant Schedule.

(8) If land included in the adjusted description of the land includes any land not described in Schedules 1-5 on the commencement of those Schedules, the land concerned is taken to have been subject to this Part and the relevant Schedule on the commencement of this Part.