SOIL AND LAND CONSERVATION ACT 1945 - SECT 30B
SOIL AND LAND CONSERVATION ACT 1945 - SECT 30B
30B . Registration and form of covenant or agreement
(1) Where, in
accordance with this section, the owner of any land covenants with the
Commissioner by instrument in writing to set that land aside for the
protection and management of vegetation, the Commissioner may deliver a
memorial of the instrument, in a form approved by the relevant land
registration officer, to the relevant land registration officer who shall
thereupon register the memorial and accordingly endorse or note the
appropriate register or record in respect of the land to which the instrument
relates.
(2) An instrument
under subsection (1) —
(a) may
be expressed to have effect for a period of time specified in the covenant or
in perpetuity;
(b) may
be expressed to be irrevocable, in which case it shall be known as a
conservation covenant , and if it is not expressed to be irrevocable shall be
known as an agreement to reserve .
(3) A covenant or
agreement —
(a) is
required to be in a form approved by the Commissioner, identifying the land to
which the covenant or agreement relates and each person who is an owner or
occupier of that land; and
(b)
requires the consent in writing of each person who is an owner or occupier of
the land to which the covenant or agreement relates.
[Section 30B inserted: No. 91 of 1990 s. 9;
amended: No. 47 of 1994 s. 17; No. 81 of 1996 s. 153(1).]