New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION COMMISSION ACT 1990 - SECT 27

27 Acquisition and disposal of land by Minister

(1) The Minister may, for the purposes of this Act or jointly for those purposes and purposes of or associated with technical and further education or recreation, acquire land (including an interest in land) by agreement or by compulsory process in accordance with the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 .

(1A) For the purposes of the Public Works Act 1912 , any such acquisition of land is taken to be for an authorised work and the Minister is, in relation to that authorised work, taken to be the Constructing Authority.

(1B) Sections 34, 35, 36 and 37 of the Public Works Act 1912 do not apply in respect of works constructed under this Act.

(2) The Minister may acquire, by gift made during a person’s lifetime or by devise or bequest in the will or other testamentary disposition of any person, any property for use for purposes for which land may be acquired under subsection (1).

(3) The Minister may agree to a condition of any such gift, devise or bequest, and the rule of law against remoteness of vesting does not apply to any such condition.

(4) The Minister may expend money on the improvement of any land acquired under this Act, or, for the purposes of this Act, on any other land, even though the improvement or the land may not be used solely for technical and further education.

(5) The Minister may:

(a) for any of the purposes for which land may be acquired under this section, grant a lease or licence of any land so acquired, and

(b) in the case of land that is no longer required for the purpose for which it was acquired, grant a lease or licence of the land or sell or exchange the land, and

(c) grant easements and rights of way in respect of land acquired under this section.

(6) The Minister may make commercial use of land acquired under this section if that use is associated with a purpose for which land may be so acquired.

(7) Land:

(a) acquired under or for the purposes of the Technical and Further Education Act 1974 , or

(b) acquired under any other Act for those purposes,

is to be taken to have been acquired under this section.