New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SOIL CONSERVATION ACT 1938 - SECT 22B

22B Application for an advance

(1) Any owner of land who desires an advance for the purpose of the carrying out of works, whether such works are included in a project or otherwise, may make an application to the Minister for an advance.

(1A) An occupier of land may, with the written consent of the owner of the land, make an application pursuant to subsection (1).

(1B) For the purposes of this Part, where an occupier of land has made, or is entitled to make, an application pursuant to subsection (1), a reference in this Part to the owner, in relation to an application in respect of the land, shall be deemed to be a reference to the occupier of the land.

(2) Such application shall be in or to the effect of a form approved by the Minister.

(3) Where this Part provides for the doing of a thing by an owner of land, that thing may be done by an agent of that owner authorised for that purpose.