Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Land Act 1958 - SECT 99

Minister may sell Crown land to public authority

99. Minister may sell Crown land to public authority



(1) In this section public authority has the same meaning as in the
Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987.

(2) This section applies despite anything to the contrary in any Act.

(3) With the Governor in Council's approval, the Minister may sell Crown land
to a public authority at a price and on terms and conditions which the
Minister thinks fit, if the Minister is satisfied that the public authority
requires the land for a public purpose.

(4) The Minister cannot under subsection (3) sell land to a public authority
if the land is for the time being permanently or temporarily reserved under
section 4 of the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978.

(5) A public authority may acquire land sold to it under this section for any
public purpose for which the authority may acquire or hold land.

(6) Without limiting subsection (5), a reference to a public purpose includes,
in the case of a municipal council, the purpose of housing or decentralised
industry.

(7) The Minister cannot, under subsection (3), sell to a public authority land
described in Schedule Three A.