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NATIONAL PARKS ACT 1975 - SECT 19E Leasing and managing of land adjacent to parks

NATIONAL PARKS ACT 1975 - SECT 19E

Leasing and managing of land adjacent to parks

    (1)     The Minister may lease any land adjacent to a park (whether with or without an option for the Crown to purchase the land) which is suitable to be part of the park to which it is adjacent.

S. 19E(2) amended by Nos 70/1998 s. 14(Sch. item 11), 19/2018 s. 169, substituted by No. 42/2021 s. 111.

    (2)     The Minister may direct land leased under subsection (1) to be managed by either of the following, as though it were part of the park to which it is adjacent and were specified in the lease—

        (a)     Parks Victoria, if the leased land is adjacent to land in a park controlled and managed by Parks Victoria;

        (b)     the Great Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority, if the leased land is adjacent to land in a park controlled and managed by the Great Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority.

    (3)     Where any lease under subsection (1) is in force in respect of land—

        (a)     the land shall be controlled and managed as if it were part of the park to which it is adjacent;

        (b)     sections 9(2) and (3), 20, 21A, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 41A, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 47A, 47B, 47C and 48 and the regulations under this Act applying to the park to which the land is adjacent and specified in the lease shall have effect in and in respect of the land as if it were part of the park specified in the lease; and

S. 19E(3)(c) amended by Nos 38/1989 s. 10, 45/2013 s. 7, 54/2015 s. 3, 12/2016 s. 30(a).

        (c)     such of sections 17A, 17B, 17C, 19G, 19K, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 25A, 26, 26A, 33 and 40 as the lease specifically provides shall have effect in and in respect of the land as if it were part of the park to which the land is adjacent and is specified in the lease; and

S. 19E(3)(d) inserted by No. 12/2016 s. 30(b).

        (d)     any or all of sections 141 to 149 of the   Land Act 1958 , as the lease specifically provides, have effect in and   in respect of the land as if the land were part of the park specified in the lease.

S. 19F inserted by No. 10166 s. 11.