PASTORAL LAND MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION ACT 1989 - SECT 45
PASTORAL LAND MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION ACT 1989 - SECT 45
45—Establishment of public access routes and stock routes
(1) A public access
route is a route dedicated as a public access route pursuant to this section.
(2) A stock route is a
route—
(a)
delineated as a stock route on a prescribed plan; or
(b)
dedicated as a stock route pursuant to this section.
(3) The Board may, by
notice in the Gazette—
(a)
dedicate delineated routes over pastoral land as public access routes or stock
routes, or both; or
(b) vary
or revoke a notice under this section.
(4) A map in a notice
published under this section must also show all public roads that cross the
pastoral land, and all stock routes delineated on a prescribed plan that cross
the land.
(5) A notice must not
be published under this section unless—
(a) the
proposal to be implemented by the notice has been published in a newspaper
circulating generally in the State inviting members of the public to comment
on the proposal within a specified period of not less than three months; and
(b)
the Board has considered any such comments; and
(c)
the Board has consulted with—
(i)
all pastoral lessees affected by the proposal; and
(ii)
the regional landscape board for the region within which
the public access route or stock route lies; and
(iii)
such organisations as the Board believes have an interest
in the matter.
(6)
Subsection (5) does not apply in relation to the temporary closure of a
public access route or stock route, or any part of such a route, pursuant to
subsection (7).
(7) On being
satisfied, on the application of a lessee, that it is necessary to do so for
the purposes of the safety of the public, the management of stock or the
carrying out of rehabilitative work on land adjacent to the route, the Board
may, by notice in the Gazette, temporarily close a public access route or a
stock route, or a part of such a route and, for that purpose, may require the
lessee to erect such signs or barriers as the Board thinks fit for the purpose
of warning the public of the closure.
(8) If a public access
route or a stock route as delineated on a prescribed plan or on a map
published under this section differs from the route as it exists on the ground
or as marked out on the ground, the latter prevails.
(9) On a public access
route or stock route being established—
(a) the
lessee's rights under the pastoral lease over the land comprising the route
cease; and
(b) the
care, control and management of the route is vested in the Minister,
but the Minister is not thereby obliged to maintain any such route.
(10) However, the
Minister may, if of the opinion that an access route has suffered considerable
damage as a result of it being used by members of the public, contribute
towards the repair or maintenance of the route.
(11) A lessee of
pastoral land over which a public access route or stock route is established
is not obliged and cannot be required to keep stock off the route, and may use
the route for the purposes of droving stock.
(12) The lessee of
pastoral land over which a public access route or stock route is established
is not entitled to compensation for any reduction in the value of the lease
resulting from establishment of the route, but any such reduction in value
will be taken into account when the lease is next revalued for the purposes of
rent determination.