Western Australian Current Acts

CONSERVATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1984 - SECT 15

15 .         Land for State forest etc., power to acquire

        (1)         Where the Governor considers that any land is required for the purpose of, or incidental to, a State forest, timber reserve, national park, conservation park, nature reserve or marine reserve, the Governor may authorise the Land Administration Minister to —

            (a)         take the land compulsorily under and subject to Part 9 of that Act;

            (b)         purchase the land or acquire it by way of exchange for Crown land.

        (2)         Where land is acquired under this section for the purpose of a State forest or timber reserve, the Governor shall, by order published in the Gazette , declare the land to be set apart as a State forest or timber reserve, as the case may be.

        (3)         Subject to subsection (2), nothing in this section shall limit the operation of section 243 of the Transfer of Land Act 1893 .

        [Section 15 amended: No. 20 of 1991 s. 12; No. 5 of 1997 s. 12; No. 31 of 1997 s. 15(6); No. 28 of 2006 s. 184.]

[ 16-16B.         Deleted: No. 36 of 2011 s. 10.]