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LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 113

LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 113

113 .         Pastoral lessee to submit annual return

        (1)         In this section —

        due date means —

            (a)         31 March; or

            (b)         if the regulations prescribe a different date, that date;

        return end date means —

            (a)         31 December; or

            (b)         if the regulations prescribe a different date, that date;

        return period , for a pastoral lease, means —

            (a)         12 months ending on the return end date; or

            (b)         if the lease is granted in that period, the period commencing on the date the lease is granted and ending on the return end date; or

            (c)         if the regulations prescribe a different period, that period.

        (2)         A pastoral lessee must, on or before the due date in each year, submit to the Board a return that relates to the land under the lease, and the activities on the land, during the preceding return period.

        Penalty for this subsection:

            (a)         a fine of $4 000;

            (b)         a daily penalty of a fine of $400 for each day or part of a day during which the offence continues.

        (3)         The return must be in an approved form and contain the following information —

            (a)         permitted stock numbers on the return end date;

            (b)         full particulars, including costs, of all improvements effected on the land under the lease in the return period;

            (c)         full particulars of the use, in the return period, of each area of land affected by a permit issued under Division 5;

            (d)         any other information the form requires.

        (4)         A pastoral lessee must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to provide in a return any information required under subsection (3).

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $4 000.

        (5)         A pastoral lessee must not provide information in a return knowing the information to be false or misleading in a material particular.

        Penalty for this subsection: imprisonment for 12 months or a fine of $15 000.

        [Section 113 inserted: No. 4 of 2023 s. 56.]