Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Land Act 1958 - SECT 134

Minister may lease Crown land under this subdivision

134. Minister may lease Crown land under this subdivision

















(1) Subject to this subdivision, the Minister on behalf of Her Majesty may
grant leases under this subdivision of any Crown land for any purposes (except
for the purposes of agriculture) at the rent and subject to the conditions,
covenants, reservations, restrictions and exceptions which he thinks fit.

(1A) The Minister may, for the purposes of entering into a lease of any Crown
land under subsection (1), enter into an agreement to lease that land.

(1B) If the Minister enters an agreement to lease Crown land under subsection
(1A) and the agreement to lease gives a right to occupy land for a period of
time, that period and the period of any lease entered into consequent on that
agreement must not, when added together, exceed the maximum lease term
permitted under this subdivision.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) or (1A) constitutes an authority to lease any
land which is reserved either temporarily or permanently under section 4 of
the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 where the reservation of the land has not
been revoked, unless-

   (a)  the lease is for the purpose of the manufacture or collection of salt;
        or

   (b)  the lease is a special lease granted under section 137AA(4).