LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 99 Minister may sell Crown land to public authority
LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 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.
S. 99(6) amended by No. 13/1990 s. 41(c).
(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.
S. 99A inserted by No. 28/1993 s. 4.