Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 161A

161A Vesting land comprised in permanently closed road or unallocated State land

(1) Without limiting section 163 , the Coordinator-General may, by gazette notice, declare that unallocated State land in a State development area is vested in the Coordinator-General, in fee simple.

(2) Subsections (3) and (4) apply if the Coordinator-General, by gazette notice, permanently closes all or part of a road under section 161 (2) (a) .

(3) If the gazette notice states that the land comprised in the road or part vests in the Coordinator-General in fee simple, the land so vests.

(4) If the gazette notice states that the land comprised in the road or part vests in the State, the land becomes unallocated State land.

(5) Subsections (6) to (9) apply if land vests in the Coordinator-General under subsection (1) or (3) .

(6) The vesting of the land takes effect—

(a) on the day the gazette notice is published; or

(b) if the gazette notice states a later day—on the later day.

(7) The chief executive of the department in which the Land Act 1994 is administered must, under that Act, register the vesting if the Coordinator-General lodges in the land registry under that Act—

(a) a request under that Act to register the vesting; and

(b) if that chief executive so requires—a plan of subdivision under that Act for the land the subject of the vesting; and

(c) a copy of the gazette notice.

(8) On the registration of the request to vest, the Governor in Council may issue to the Coordinator-General a deed of grant under the Land Act 1994 for the land the subject of the vesting.

(9) Despite the Land Act 1994 and the Land Title Act 1994 , no fee is payable by the Coordinator-General in relation to the registration of the vesting or to give effect to it.