STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 163
Power to manage reserves and other lands
STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 163
Power to manage reserves and other lands
163 Power to manage reserves and other lands
(1) The Governor in Council may, by proclamation published in the gazette,
place under the control and management of the Coordinator-General any land
reserved and set apart for a public purpose, any cemetery, park, foreshore or
other land, and any building, structure, or other thing that has been provided
for out of moneys appropriated by Parliament.
(2) Upon publication of the
proclamation—
(a) the land, building, structure or other thing concerned
shall vest in the Coordinator-General and, in the case of land, for such
estate or interest as is specified in the proclamation; and
(b) the control
and management of the land, building, structure or other thing concerned shall
be a function of the Coordinator-General under this Act and a trust or
provision that then regulates the management, control or use thereof shall
cease to operate.
(3) The registrar of titles and any other person charged
with the duty of recording in a public register dealings affecting the land
concerned shall, on the request of the Coordinator-General and production of
sufficient notification of the making of the proclamation, make in the
register that relates to the instrument of title to the land all entries
necessary to give effect to the proclamation and the provisions of subsection
(2) .
(4) The Coordinator-General may, according to the nature of that which
the proclamation vests in the Coordinator-General and the purpose for which it
is so vested, do all such things as the Coordinator-General thinks fit to
effect that purpose and subject thereto to improve the land, building,
structure or thing vested in the Coordinator-General.
