New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WESTERN LANDS REGULATION 2004 - REG 30

30 Surrenders: section 33A

(1) A surrender under section 33A of the Act of any land the subject of a Western Lands lease is to be lodged with the Commissioner in the approved form endorsed (if any land to be surrendered is mortgaged) with the consent of the mortgagee.

(2) Unless the surrender is made at the instance or for the benefit of the Crown, the approved deposit towards the cost of dealing with the surrender must accompany the instrument of surrender.

(3) The Minister may continue to take any action under section 33A of the Act (including in relation to the transfer of Crown land in exchange for freehold land) that had been begun before the amendment of that section by the Western Lands Amendment Act 2002 , and section 33A, as in force immediately before that amendment, continues to have effect in relation to anything arising from that action as if that section had not been so amended.