New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WESTERN LANDS ACT 1901 - SECT 35XB

35XB Development districts

(1) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare any land to be a development district for the purposes of this Part.

(2) Such a declaration must designate the purposes for which a special purpose lease may be granted over land in the development district established by the declaration.

(3) A purpose may not be designated under subsection (2) unless it is an approved purpose.

(4) The following purposes are approved for the purposes of subsection (3):

(a) the construction and operation of facilities for the harnessing of energy from any source (including the sun or wind) and its conversion into electrical energy,

(b) such other purposes as may be approved by a proclamation under section 44B (4) (b) of the Crown Lands Act 1989 .

(5) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, alter the boundaries of, or abolish, any development district or, subject to subsections (3) and (4), vary the designated purposes for the district.

(6) A special purpose lease is not affected merely because the whole or any part of the land over which it is granted ceases to be in a development district as a result of a notification referred to in subsection (5).