South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts44—Establishment of sanctuaries
(1) If the Minister is
of the opinion that it is desirable to conserve the animals or plants for
which any land is a natural habitat or environment and—
(a)
where the land is reserved for or dedicated to, a public purpose, the person
to whom the care, control and management of that land has been committed has
consented to a declaration under this section; or
(b)
where the land is private land, the owner and occupier of the land have
consented to a declaration under this section,
the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare the land to be a
sanctuary.
(1a) The declaration
of land as a sanctuary under subsection (1) on or after 1 January 1994 is
subject to native title existing when the declaration was made.
(2) The
Minister—
(a) may
revoke any declaration under this section; and
(b)
where private land constitutes a sanctuary, and the owner of that land, by
instrument in writing, requests that the land should cease to be a sanctuary,
must revoke the declaration under which that land is constituted a sanctuary.
(3) In this
section—
"owner" in relation to private land means the holder of an estate in fee
simple in the land.