LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 91

LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 91

91 .         Licences and profits à prendre over Crown land, grant of

        (1)         The Minister may grant a licence or profit à prendre in respect of Crown land for any purpose.

        (2)         The Minister may —

            (a)         fix or extend the duration of; or

            (b)         determine fees and conditions in respect of; or

            (c)         review; or

            (d)         with the consent of its holder, amend the provisions of,

                any licence or profit à prendre granted under subsection (1).

        (3)         The Minister may on the breach of any condition to which a licence granted under subsection (1) is subject, terminate that licence.

        (4)         The Minister may accept the surrender of a profit à prendre granted under subsection (1) from its holder in respect of the whole or any part of the area to which that profit à prendre applies.

        (5)         Nothing in this Act prevents the simultaneous existence on the same area of Crown land of —

            (a)         a licence or profit à prendre granted under subsection (1); and

            (b)         a mining, petroleum or geothermal energy right,

                if the Minister to whom the administration of the relevant Act referred to in the definition of mining, petroleum or geothermal energy right in section 3(1) is for the time being committed by the Governor, or a public service officer of the department that is principally assisting in the administration of the relevant Act, who is authorised in writing by that Minister to do so, approves of that area being used both for the purposes of that licence or profit à prendre and the purposes of the mining, petroleum or geothermal energy right.

        (6)         If a licence granted under subsection (1) is transferable by the licensee, in accordance with the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Commonwealth) section 10 the definition of licence paragraph (d), the licence is declared not to be personal property for the purposes of that Act.

        (7)         The operation of this section is affected by the Land Administration (South West Native Title Settlement) Act 2016 Part 4.

        [Section 91 amended: No. 35 of 2007 s. 98(6); No. 8 of 2010 s. 13; No. 42 of 2011 s. 81; No. 10 of 2016 s. 28.]