LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 22A Power to public authorities to surrender lands

LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 22A

    (1)     Where any land is vested in an authority the authority may notwithstanding anything in any Act with the consent of the Governor in Council—

        (a)     surrender the land or any part thereof to the Crown;

        (b)     agree with any other authority to transfer the land or any part thereof to that other authority;

        (c)     agree with any other authority to exchange the land for land vested in that other authority.

    (2)     Where pursuant to this section an authority has agreed to transfer land to another authority it shall surrender the land to the Crown and the Governor in Council may by order published in the Government Gazette vest the land subject to and in accordance with the agreement in the other authority for the appropriate purposes of that other authority.

    (3)     Where pursuant to this section an authority has agreed with another authority to exchange land each authority shall surrender the land agreed to be exchanged to the Crown and the Governor in Council may by order published in the Government Gazette vest the land so surrendered subject to and in accordance with the agreement in the respective authorities for the appropriate purposes of those authorities respectively.

    (4) (a)     Where pursuant to subsection (1) of this section an authority surrenders land the Governor in Council by order published in the Government Gazette may make any amendment necessary in consequence of such surrender to any provision in any Act in which any land of the authority is described.

        (b)     Where pursuant to subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section any land is surrendered by an authority and by Order in Council vested in another authority the Governor in Council by the same order may make any amendment necessary in consequence of such surrender or vesting to any provision in any Act in which any land of the respective authorities is described.

    (5)     In this section "authority" means any body corporate constituted by an Act of Parliament for a public purpose.

S. 22A(6) amended by Nos 9921 s. 255, 12/2004 s. 161(1), 6/2010 s. 203(1)

(Sch. 6 item 27.1) (as amended by No. 45/2010 s. 22).

    (6)     Nothing in this section shall limit the operation of the Transport Integration Act 2010 or the Road Management Act 2004 .

S. 22B inserted by No. 7075 s. 2, repealed by No. 9212 s. 2(1).

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S. 22C (Heading) inserted by No. 25/2023 s. 7(Sch.  1 item 17.6).

S. 22C inserted by No. 7075 s. 2, substituted by No. 8363 s. 2.