South Australian Consolidated Acts

LAND ACQUISITION ACT 1969 - SECT 27

27—Powers of entry

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act, or the special Act, the Authority or any person authorised in writing by the Authority, may—

            (a)         enter and remain upon any land with any assistants, vehicles, machinery or equipment; and

            (b)         affix or establish any trigonometrical stations, survey pegs, marks or poles and from time to time alter, remove, re-instate, or remove them; and

            (c)         dig or bore into the land.

        (2)         The Authority must, at least 7 days before entering land under subsection (1), give notice to the owner and occupier of the land. ¹

        (3)         A person who—

            (a)         wilfully and without authorisation from the Authority, interferes with any trigonometrical stations, survey pegs, marks or poles; or

            (b)         wilfully obstructs any person acting in accordance with this section,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.

Note—

1         For the procedure for giving notice in relation to native title land see Part 5 of the Native Title (South Australia) Act 1994 .