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EDUCATION ACT 1990 - SECT 125

Acquisition and disposal of land

125 Acquisition and disposal of land

(1) The Minister may, for the purposes of this Act or jointly for those purposes and purposes of or associated with public education or recreation, acquire land (including an interest in land) by agreement or by compulsory process in accordance with the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 .
(2) The Minister may acquire, by gift made during a person's lifetime or by devise or bequest in the will or other testamentary disposition of any person, any property for use for purposes for which land may be acquired under subsection (1).
(3) The Minister may agree to a condition of any such gift, devise or bequest, and the rule of law against remoteness of vesting does not apply to any such condition.
(4) The Minister may expend money on the improvement of any land acquired under this Act or, for the purposes of this Act, on any other land, even though the improvement or the land may not be used solely for public education.
(5) The Minister may--
(a) for any of the purposes for which land may be acquired under this section, grant a lease or licence of any land so acquired, and
(b) in the case of land that is no longer required for the purpose for which it was acquired, grant a lease or licence of the land or sell or exchange the land, and
(c) grant easements and rights of way in respect of land acquired under this section.
(6) The Minister may make commercial use of land acquired under this section if that use is associated with a purpose for which land may be so acquired.
(7) Land--
(a) acquired under or for the purposes of the Public Instruction Act 1880 or the Education and Public Instruction Act 1987 , or
(b) acquired under any other Act for those purposes, or
(c) held by the Crown in trust under the Public Instruction Act 1880 ,
is to be taken to have been acquired under this section.



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