CROWN LANDS ACT 1976
CROWN LANDS ACT 1976
- Act 28 of 1976
- Royal Assent 19 July 1976
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART I - Preliminary
1. Short title and commencement
2. Interpretation
2A. Act not to apply to certain land
PART II - Administration
3. Powers of management and sale of Crown land vested in Minister
3A. Compliance with resource management and planning system objectives
4. Land districts and parishes
5. Sites for towns
6. Land to be disposed of only in accordance with this Act
7. Appointment of Director-General of Lands and employees
8. Public purposes for which land may be reserved
9. Section 9
10. Power to revoke certain reservations
11. Bailiffs of Crown lands
12. Setting aside Crown land for purposes of Act, &c.
PART IIB - Management of public reserves
12C. Management plans
12D. Formulation of management plans
12E. Contents of management plans
12F. Notification and taking effect of management plans
12G. Managing authorities for public reserves
12H. Functions of managing authority in relation to public reserves
12I. Establishment of Conservation Management Trust
12J. Functions of Conservation Management Trust
12K. Membership of Conservation Management Trust
12L. Revocation of establishment of Conservation Management Trust
PART III - Sale of Crown Land
13. Sale of Crown land
14. Power of Minister to take mortgage upon sale of Crown land
15. Payments of interest on moneys owing upon sale of Crown land
16. Upon sale the Minister to grant land; the grant to make reservation
for gold, &c.
17. Classification of Crown land and determination of terms and
conditions of sale, &c.
18. Special provisions relating to sale by auction
19. Successful bidder to pay deposit on day of auction
20. Land not to be transferred, &c., unless conditions of contract
fulfilled
21. Purchaser agreeing to effect improvements to furnish declaration as
to expenditure
22. Forfeiture for non-payment of instalments
23. Forfeiture for breach of conditions
24. Effect of forfeiture
25. Dealing with land held under contract
26. Transmission without probate or administration in certain cases
27. Surrender of interest under contract
28. Purchase of Crown land by false representation
PART IV - Leases Division 1 - Lease of Crown land
29. Lease of Crown land
29A. Additional provisions for lease of public reserve
Division 2 - Lease of land for industrial, business, residential, or
other purposes
30. Lease of land for industrial or residential purposes
Division 3 - Lease of land for rural purposes
31. Lease of land for rural purposes
32. Re-assessment of rent in respect of land leased for rural purposes
33. Termination or surrender of lease
34. The Director-General to keep record of improvements effected by a
lessee
35. Grant of option to purchase to outgoing lessee or payment of value
for improvements effected on Crown land
35A. Compensation payable on non-renewal of certain leases
35B. Compensation payable on vesting of certain land to Aboriginal Land
Council of Tasmania
Division 4 - General provisions as to leases granted by the
Minister
36. Forfeiture or cancellation of lease for non-payment of rent or
breach of conditions
37. Termination of lease where land required for public or other
purposes
38. Termination of lease in consequence of mining operations
39. Compensation for improvements
Division 5 - Leases of portfolio land
39A. Lease of portfolio land
39B. Section 39B
39C. Application of Residential Tenancy Act 1997
39D. Use of rent money
39E. Section 39E
PART V - Licences Division 1 - Licences to take material from
Crown land
40. Licences to remove gravel and stone, &c.
41. Marine plant licences
41A. Section 41A
Division 2 - Temporary licences
42. Temporary licences
Division 3 - General provisions as to licences
43. When lawfully required holder to produce licence
44. Cancellation of licence when land used for other purposes
45. Improvements on land held under temporary or occupation licence
PART VA - Business Licences
45A. Trading without business licence prohibited
45B. Application for business licence
45C. Granting of business licence
45D. Issue of business licence
45E. Variation of conditions
45F. Term of business licence
45G. Renewal of business licence
45H. Transfer of business licence
45I. Cancellation of business licence
45J. General authority
PART VI - Unlawful Acts relating to Crown Land, &c.
46. Unlawful user
47. Obstructing roads
48. Dispossession of persons in unlawful occupations
PART VIA - Financial Provisions
48A. Interpretation of Part VIA
48B. Crown Lands Administration Fund
48C. Transfer of money to Public Account
PART VII - Miscellaneous
49. Neglect or refusal to sign lease, &c.
50. General penalty
51. Acquisition of land
52. Power to close and dispose of old road
53. Reclamations from the sea, &c.
54. Crown lands to be alienated as regards surface only
55. Closure of highway; land how dealt with
56. Leases and licences of land subject to mining rights
57. Reservation of land abutting on streams
58. No waiver by acceptance of purchase-money, interest, or rent
59. Surrender of land to the Crown
60. Effect of error in written description
61. Section 61
62. Pounds on Crown lands
63. Powers with respect to land acquired under the Land Acquisition Act
1993
64. Grant or sale of Crown land otherwise than in accordance with this
Act
65. Offence to prevent free and open competition at auctions
66. Serving of notices
67. Reviews in certain cases
68. Regulations
69. Regulations with respect to the management, &c., of Crown lands
70. Fees
71. Delegation of powers by Minister, &c.
71A. Delegation
72. Saving for other Acts
73. Repeals and transitional provisions
73A. Consequential amendments to other Acts
73B. Transitional provisions
74. Consequential amendments
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