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.]