CROWN LANDS ACT 1992
Table of Provisions
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
- 1 Short title
- 2 Commencement
- 3 Definitions
- 4 How Crown lands may be alienated
- 5 Leases of land on which there are Territory buildings
PART 2--ADMINISTRATION
- 6 Power to enter on lands
- 7 Delegation
- 8 Fees
PART 3--ESTATES IN FEE SIMPLE AND LEASES
Division 1--Alienation of Land
- 9 Power to alienate land
- 10 Agreement to grant estate in fee simple or lease of Crown land
- 11 Certain land to revert
- 12 Methods of disposal of Crown lands
- 13 Notice of lands available, &c.
- 14 Procedures at auctions, &c.
- 15 Applications for leases or freehold
- 16 Purchase price
- 17 Payment of deposit
- 18 Costs of survey, &c.
Division 2--Estates in fee simple
- 19 Reservations and restrictive covenants
- 20 Reservations relating to Aboriginal community living areas
- 21 Reservation of minerals
- 22 Water rights
- 23 Maximum size of freehold grant
- 24 Development agreements
- 25 Grant before payment
Division 3--Leases
- 26 Classes of Crown leases
- 27 General conditions of leases
- 28 Fixing of rent
- 29 Reduction of rent
- 30 Lease grant charges
- 31 Exemption from rates
- 32 Failure to accept offer of lease
- 33 Abandonment of right to lease
- 34 Variation of lease provisions
- 35 Minister may grant a moratorium
- 36 Noting variation of lease
- 37 Reservations in leases
- 38 Breach of conditions
- 39 Forfeiture of mortgaged lease
- 40 Postponement of rent
- 41 Release of lessees in case of hardship
- 41A Refund of rent
- 42 Subdivision of lease, &c.
- 43 Surrender of leases and grant of consolidated lease
- 44 Subdivision applications where Planning Act 1999 applies
- 45 Surrender of land for reservation as a sanctuary
- 46 Transfer etc. of lease
- 47 Consent to transfer etc. of leases
- 48 Consent not to be given in certain cases
- 49 Improvements on lands to be leased
- 50 Re-appraisement of rent
- 51 Re-appraisement of rent based on unimproved value
- 52 To whom lease may be granted
- 53 Recovery of rent
- 54 Valuation of improvements
- 55 Conversion to freehold, &c.
- 56 Term of lease
- 57 Leases for subdivisional work
- 58 Lessee's rights in improvements
- 59 Valuation of improvements
Division 4--Easements, easements in gross, covenants and covenants in gross
- 60 Definitions
- 61 Power to create easements, easements in gross, covenants and covenants in gross
PART 4--VESTING OF FEE SIMPLE IN ROADS
- 73 Vesting of fee simple in roads
- 74 Indefeasibility of title
- 75 Title of and use by persons who have an interest in land
PART 5--RESERVATIONS AND RESUMPTIONS
- 76 Resumption and reservation of Crown land
- 77 Resumption of part of land the subject of a lease
- 78 Control and management of reserved land
- 79 Trustees of reserved land
- 80 Notice of resumption
- 81 Cancellation of lease as regards resumed land
- 82 Compensation for resumption
PART 6--OBJECTIONS AND REVIEWS
- 83 Objections
- 84 Applications for review
- 85 Powers of Tribunal
- 86 Validity of re-appraisements, &c.
- 87 Notice of forfeitures of leases
PART 7--LICENCES
- 88 Definition
- 89 Application of Part
- 90 Application for licence
- 91 Grant or refusal of licence
- 92 Conditions of licence
- 93 Term of licence
- 94 Licence fees
- 94A Royalties
- 94B Cancellation or surrender of licence
- 94C Amounts owing are debt to Territory
PART 8--MISCELLANEOUS
- 95 Constitution of counties, hundreds and town lands
- 96 Declaration of routes for travelling stock
- 97 Persons authorised may conduct auction sales without licence
- 98 Power of Minister to summon witnesses, &c.
- 99 Unbranded wild cattle and buffaloes
- 100 Power to impound cattle or buffaloes trespassing and to destroy pigs
- 101 Penalty for unlawfully depasturing
- 102 Penalty for removing timber, &c., without a licence
- 103 Service of notices, &c.
- 104 Onus of proof
- 105 Power to enforce covenant or forfeit lease not affected by demand or acceptance of rent
- 106 Regulations
PART 9--REPEAL AND SAVINGS
PART 10--TRANSITIONAL MATTERS
Division 1--Statute Law Amendment (Territory Economic Reconstruction) Act 2021
- 109 Definitions
- 110 Transition of 10 year rent re-appraisement
Division 2--Statute Law Amendment (Territory Economic Reconstruction) Act 2022
- 111 Licence in force before commencement