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LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 101

101 .         Grant of pastoral lease, Minister’s powers as to

        (1)         The Minister may grant a lease (a pastoral lease ) over any Crown lands in accordance with Part 6 and this Part.

        (2)         Subject to this section, if land under a pastoral lease proposed to be granted includes improvements, the grant of the lease may be subject to the payment of a sale price.

        [(3)         deleted]

        (4)         The Minister must act under this section in consultation with the Board, which is to offer its advice on the setting of the sale price, conditions and procedures for any of the release processes, and the evaluation of applicants under section 102.

        (5)         A pastoral lease must not be granted unless —

            (a)         the Board is satisfied that the land under the lease will be capable, when fully developed, of carrying sufficient authorised stock to enable it to be worked as an economically viable and ecologically sustainable pastoral business unit; or

            (b)         the lease is to be amalgamated with an adjoining pastoral lease; or

            (c)         the lease is to become, together with an adjoining pastoral lease or part of an adjoining pastoral lease, a pastoral business unit under section 142A, the creation of which has been approved under section 142A(1).

        (6)         Subsections (2) and (5) do not apply in relation to the following —

            (a)         a renewal or grant of a lease offered under section 140;

            (b)         a grant of a lease in the circumstances referred to in section 105A(1)(b).

        [Section 101 amended: No. 59 of 2000 s. 24; No. 4 of 2023 s. 46.]



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