Western Australian Consolidated Acts

WATER AGENCIES (POWERS) ACT 1984 - SECT 78

78 .         Power to dispose of land

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2) and to section 12EB(2) of the Country Areas Water Supply Act 1947 but otherwise in accordance with Part 9 of the Land Administration Act 1997 , the Minister or the Corporation may sell or otherwise deal with any land, or any estate or interest in land, acquired by a former Minister, a statutory authority, the former Commission, the Minister or the Corporation and vested in the Minister or the Corporation for the purposes of this Act or a relevant Act and no longer required for such purposes.

        (2)         Where any such land, estate or interest acquired by a former Minister, a statutory authority, the former Commission, the Minister or the Corporation was not acquired under this Act or any other Act by way of compulsory taking for any public work, sections 187, 188, 189, 190, and 191 of the Land Administration Act 1997 shall not have effect in relation thereto.

        [Section 78 inserted by No. 25 of 1985 s. 18; amended by No. 73 of 1995 s. 42; No. 31 of 1997 s. 137(9) and 142; No. 38 of 2007 s. 118.]