CROWN RATES AND TAXES RECOVERY ACT 1945 - SECT 4

CROWN RATES AND TAXES RECOVERY ACT 1945 - SECT 4

4—Power of Minister to sell land

        (1)         For the purpose aforesaid the Minister shall have the following powers:

        I         Power to sell the said land:

        II         Power to transfer or convey the land sold.

        (2)         The said power of sale shall include—

            (a)         a power to sell the land or any part thereof either together or in lots by public auction or by private contract subject to such terms and conditions with respect to the payment of the purchase money or any other matter (including power to fix a reserve) as the Minister thinks fit;

            (b)         power to vary any contract of sale and to buy in at any auction;

            (c)         power to rescind any contract for sale and to resell without being answerable for any loss occasioned thereby;

            (d)         power to make such streets and roads and to grant such easements of right-of-way or drainage over the same as the circumstances of the case may require and the Minister thinks fit,

provided that the land shall not be sold by private contract unless and until the land has been first offered for sale by public auction.