New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WESTERN LANDS ACT 1901 - SECT 35N

35N Agreements relating to betterment schemes

(1) The Minister may enter into an agreement with the owner or lessee of land in the Western Division for the purpose of carrying into effect any scheme with respect to the productivity, conservation, environmental protection or monitoring of land in the Western Division.

(2) The covenants, conditions and provisions of any agreement referred to in subsection (1) may include covenants, conditions and provisions relating to any one or more of the following:

(a) the total number of livestock or the number of livestock of specified classes which may, from time to time, be carried on the land the subject of the agreement,

(b) the methods and practices of land utilisation to be adopted on that land,

(c) the assistance to be provided by the Minister towards the execution of any works or measures required to be undertaken upon that land.

(3) An agreement referred to in subsection (1) may be executed on behalf of the Minister by the Commissioner.

(4) No act, matter or thing which a lessee, under or in conformity with an agreement referred to in subsection (1), does upon or in relation to the land the subject of the lease shall render the lease liable to forfeiture under this Act merely by reason of the fact that the doing of the act, matter or thing constitutes a breach or non-performance of any covenant, condition or provision applicable to the lease.