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LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 165

LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 165

165 .         Interests in land may be taken etc.

        (1)         Whenever a written law permits the grant of any estate, interest, right, power or privilege in, over or in relation to land, and any land is required for the purposes of the grant, the Minister may by order authorise the doing in relation to the land of any of the acts permitted under section 161.

        (2)         The Minister may only exercise the power conferred by subsection (1) or (4) in respect of any land if every proposed grant will be for the purpose of enabling the use or development of the land, or the doing of both of those things, in a way that, in the opinion of the Minister, confers an economic or social benefit on the State or the relevant region or locality.

        (3)         Nothing in this Subdivision affects the power under a written law to make a grant of a kind referred to in subsection (1) in, over or in relation to land where interests in the land have been taken under Subdivision 1.

        (4)         The Minister may by order —

            (a)         revoke or amend an order made under subsection (1); or

            (b)         revoke an order made under subsection (1) and replace it with another order.

        [Section 165 amended: No. 61 of 1998 s. 11; No. 59 of 2000 s. 43.]