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LANDS ACQUISITION AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2000 (NO. 1) 2000 NO. 304

STATUTORY RULES 2000 No. 304

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Finance and Administration

Lands Acquisition Act 1989

Lands Acquisition Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)

Section 140 of the Lands Acquisition Act 1989 (the Act) provides that the GovernorGeneral may make regulations prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

Sub-section 137(1) of the Act provides that a document required or permitted by the Act to be given to the Minister, except documents relating to land in an external territory, shall be given to the Minister by sending it by pre-paid post to the Minister at an address prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.

The Regulations revise the prescribed addresses listed in Schedule 2 of the Lands Acquisition Regulations. The prescribed addresses relate to the capital city offices of the Australian Property Group (APG), an organisation that no longer exists.

The Department of Finance and Administration is now responsible for administering the Act. The proposed Regulations will provide that the prescribed address for the purpose of Section 137 of the Act will be 'Secretary, Department of Finance and Administration'.

Details of the regulations are as follows:

Regulation 1

This advises that the name of the Regulations is the Lands Acquisition Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1).

Regulation 2

This provides that the Regulations are to commence on gazettal.

Regulation 3

This provides that Schedule 1 amends the Lands Acquisition Regulations.

Schedule 1

[1] Schedule 1, Regulation 1

This item substitutes the new name of the regulations of Lands Acquisition Regulations 1989 in lieu of Lands Acquisition Regulations.

[2] Schedule 1, Regulation 8

This item substitutes a new Regulation 8, for the existing Regulation 8 which refers to the prescribed addresses in Schedule 2, with a new prescribed address of:

Secretary Department of Finance and Administration GPO Box 1920 CANBERRA ACT 2601.

[3] Schedule 1, Schedule 2

This item omits Schedule 2 as it is no longer needed following the insertion of the new prescribed address in the Regulations by new Regulation 8.