{"id":"crown-land-management-regulations-2024","name":"Crown Land Management Regulations 2024","slug":"crown-land-management-regulations-2024","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"sa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":235344,"registerId":"sa-crown-land-management-regulations-2024-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-06","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Crown Land Management Regulations 2024","content":"South Australia\nCrown Land Management Regulations 2024\nunder the Crown Land Management Act 2009\n\nContents\nPart 1—Preliminary\n1\tShort title\n2\tCommencement\n3\tInterpretation\nPart 2—General provisions supporting Act\n4\tPrescribed amount—section 25(1)(d)\n5\tPrescribed circumstances—section 25(1)(e)\n6\tApplication of Part 3 Division 4 of Act—section 27(1)(b)(ii)\n7\tOccupation of Crown land—section 61(1)(a)\n8\tService—section 75\nPart 3—Regulation of access to and activities on unalienated Crown land\n9\tSetting aside unalienated Crown land for specified activities\n10\tProhibition and restriction of specified activities on designated unalienated Crown land\n11\tRestrictions on access to unalienated Crown land for public health and safety\n12\tCompliance with notices and signs\nPart 4—Miscellaneous\n13\tPermits\nSchedule 1—Repeal and transitional provisions\nPart 1—Repeal of Crown Land Management Regulations 2010\n1\tRepeal of regulations\nPart 2—Transitional provision\n2\tTransitional provision—section 81(3)\nLegislative history\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n1—Short title\nThese regulations may be cited as the Crown Land Management Regulations 2024.\n2—Commencement\nThese regulations come into operation on the day on which they are made.\n3—Interpretation\nIn these regulations—\nAct means the Crown Land Management Act 2009;\nAdelaide City Council means The Corporation of the City of Adelaide;\nAdelaide Park Lands has the same meaning as in the Adelaide Park Lands Act 2005;\nGreater Adelaide has the same meaning as in the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016;\noutback has the same meaning as in the Outback Communities (Administration and Management) Act 2009;\nOutback Communities Authority means the Outback Communities Authority under the Outback Communities (Administration and Management) Act 2009;\nregional council means a council whose area under the Local Government Act 1999 is outside Greater Adelaide.\nPart 2—General provisions supporting Act\n4—Prescribed amount—section 25(1)(d)\nFor the purposes of section 25(1)(d) of the Act, the prescribed amount is $25 000.\n5—Prescribed circumstances—section 25(1)(e)\nThe following circumstances are prescribed for the purposes of section 25(1)(e) of the Act:\n\t(a)\twhere land is disposed of to a person who—\n\t(i)\tis, or has previously been, a licensee of the land; and\n\t(ii)\thas, in the opinion of the Minister, constructed or made significant improvements on the land;\n\t(b)\twhere land is disposed of in order to comply with an obligation that the Crown, or a Crown agency, has assumed under a statutory indenture, or other statutory agreement, if the obligation existed (whether in the same or substantially similar terms) at the commencement of section 25 of the Act;\n\t(c)\twhere land that falls within the area of a regional council is disposed of to that council;\n\t(d)\twhere land that falls within the outback is disposed of to the Outback Communities Authority.\n6—Application of Part 3 Division 4 of Act—section 27(1)(b)(ii)\nFor the purposes of section 27(1)(b)(ii) of the Act, land included in the Adelaide Park Lands and under the care, control and management of the Adelaide City Council (other than land in relation to which a power to grant easements otherwise exists under the Act or the Real Property Act 1886) is prescribed.\n7—Occupation of Crown land—section 61(1)(a)\nFor the purposes of section 61(1)(a) of the Act, the following periods are prescribed:\n\t(a)\tin relation to the occupation of an area specified in a notice or sign under Part 3 where the period for which a person may occupy the area, or a site within the area, is fixed by the notice or sign or by condition imposed by the Minister—the period specified in the notice, sign or condition (as the case requires);\n\t(b)\tin any other case—a period of 21 days.\n8—Service—section 75\nPursuant to section 75 of the Act, a notice or document required or authorised by the Act to be given to a person may be sent to an email address provided by the person or otherwise known to be used by the person and the notice or document will be taken to have been served or given at the time of transmission.\nPart 3—Regulation of access to and activities on unalienated Crown land\n9—Setting aside unalienated Crown land for specified activities\n\t(1)\tThe Minister may, by notice in the Gazette or by notice or sign displayed on land—\n\t(a)\tset aside a designated area of unalienated Crown land as an area in which a specified activity (not being an activity that should, in the opinion of the Minister, require a lease or licence under the Act) may be undertaken; and\n\t(b)\timpose conditions and restrictions on access to, and the use of, the designated area as the Minister thinks fit, which may provide (without limitation) that—\n\t(i)\tthe area may only be accessed and used for the purposes of the specified activity; and\n\t(ii)\ta person must obtain a permit to access the area, or any site within the area, and undertake the activity.\n\t(2)\tIf the Minister sets aside land for a particular activity by a notice or sign displayed on land, the notice or sign must, as far as is reasonably practicable, be displayed at each point of entry to that area of land (such as on each established road entering the area).\n\t(3)\tThe Minister must, before taking any action under subregulation (1), undertake such consultation as the Minister determines to be reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances of the particular case.\n\t(4)\tA person who contravenes or fails to comply with a condition or restriction imposed under this regulation is guilty of an offence.\nMaximum penalty: $5 000.\nExpiation fee: $315.\n10—Prohibition and restriction of specified activities on designated unalienated Crown land\n\t(1)\tThe Minister may, by notice in the Gazette or by notice or sign displayed on land—\n\t(a)\tdesignate an area of unalienated Crown land as an area in which an activity, or an activity of a class, specified in the notice is prohibited or otherwise restricted or regulated in accordance with the terms of the notice or sign; and\n\t(b)\timpose conditions on access to the designated area and activities within the designated area as the Minister thinks fit, which may include, without limitation, a condition that a person must obtain a permit to access the area, or any site within the area, and undertake the activity.\n\t(2)\tIf the Minister prohibits or otherwise restricts or regulates an activity on a designated area of land by a notice or sign displayed on land, the notice or sign must, as far as is reasonably practicable, be displayed at each point of entry to that area of land (such as on each established road entering the area).\n\t(3)\tThe Minister must, before taking any action under subregulation (1), undertake such consultation as the Minister determines to be reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances of the particular case.\n\t(4)\tA person who contravenes or fails to comply with a prohibition, restriction or condition imposed under this regulation is guilty of an offence.\nMaximum penalty: $5 000.\nExpiation fee: $315.\n11—Restrictions on access to unalienated Crown land for public health and safety\n\t(1)\tThe Minister may, by notice in the Gazette or by notice or sign displayed on land, prohibit or restrict access to a designated area of unalienated Crown land if satisfied that it is appropriate to do so to eliminate or reduce a risk to the health and safety of persons who may otherwise enter and use the land.\n\t(2)\tA notice or sign under subregulation (1) in relation to unalienated Crown land may impose any conditions that the Minister thinks fit that will apply to a person entering and using the land, which may include, without limitation, a condition that a person must obtain a permit to access the land.\n\t(3)\tIf the Minister prohibits or restricts access to a designated area of unalienated Crown land by a notice or sign displayed on land, the notice or sign must, as far as is reasonably practicable, be displayed at each point of entry to that area of land (such as on each established road entering the area).\n\t(4)\tThe Minister must, before taking any action under subregulation (1), undertake such consultation as the Minister determines to be reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances of the particular case.\n\t(5)\tA person who contravenes or fails to comply with a prohibition, restriction or condition imposed under this regulation is guilty of an offence.\nMaximum penalty: $5 000.\nExpiation fee: $315.\n12—Compliance with notices and signs\n\t(1)\tA person on unalienated Crown land must not, without the consent of the Minister, contravene or fail to comply with a direction given by the Minister in the form of a notice or sign displayed on the land.\nMaximum penalty: $5 000.\nExpiation fee: $315.\n\t(2)\tFor the purposes of subregulation (1) and without limitation, the consent of the Minister may be given in the form of a permit.\nPart 4—Miscellaneous\n13—Permits\n\t(1)\tA permit under these regulations may be obtained—\n\t(a)\ton application to the Minister in a manner and form determined by the Minister; and\n\t(b)\tsubject to subregulation (2), on payment to the Minister of the relevant fee fixed by the Minister.\n\t(2)\tThe Minister may waive, reduce or refund the whole or any portion of any fee payable under subregulation (1) if satisfied that it is appropriate to do so in a particular case.\n\t(3)\tA permit—\n\t(a)\tis subject to such limitations, restrictions and conditions as the Minister thinks fit; and\n\t(b)\tmay, if the holder of the permit has in the opinion of the Minister contravened or failed to comply with any limitation, restriction or condition of the permit, be revoked by the Minister.\nSchedule 1—Repeal and transitional provisions\nPart 1—Repeal of Crown Land Management Regulations 2010\n1—Repeal of regulations\nThe Crown Land Management Regulations 2010 are repealed.\nPart 2—Transitional provision\n2—Transitional provision—section 81(3)\nFor the avoidance of doubt (and in accordance with section 81(3) of the Act), nothing in the Act derogates from or affects any entitlement under a statutory indenture or other statutory agreement, existing immediately before the commencement of the Act, to the grant or transfer by the Crown or a Crown agency of an estate or interest in, or a right in respect of, land.\nLegislative history\nNotes\n\t•\tFor further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or www.legislation.sa.gov.au.\nPrincipal regulations\nYear\nNo\nReference\nCommencement\n2024\n92\nGazette 26.9.2024 p3801 \n26.9.2024: r 2\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations appear to maintain the same scope as their predecessor (the 2010 regulations). They continue to deal with access management, permits, and land disposal procedures without significant expansion into new policy areas. The structure closely mirrors typical subordinate legislation supporting Crown land management Acts."},"complexity_factors":["Short length (13 regulations plus schedule)","Minimal cross-referencing—primarily references back to specific sections of the parent Act (Crown Land Management Act 2009) rather than complex interlocking provisions","Only 7 defined terms in the interpretation section, all of which reference other statutes rather than creating new complex definitions","Straightforward conditional structure with clear offence provisions and penalty boxes","No nested exceptions or deeply conditional logic—each regulation operates relatively independently","Simple transitional provisions (essentially just preserving existing legal rights under old agreements)"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this legislation does:**\n\nThese regulations set the rules for how Crown land (land owned by the South Australian government) is managed, accessed, and used. They replace the 2010 regulations and work alongside the Crown Land Management Act 2009.\n\n**Key things it covers:**\n\n- **Selling or giving away Crown land:** Sets out special circumstances where the government can dispose of Crown land without going through normal competitive processes. These include selling to long-term licensees who've built improvements, fulfilling old legal agreements, or transferring land to regional councils and the Outback Communities Authority.\n\n- **Setting aside land for activities:** The Minister can designate areas for specific recreational or other activities (like camping, fishing, or events) and set rules about how people use those areas.\n\n- **Banning or restricting activities:** The Minister can prohibit certain activities on Crown land or require permits for access—particularly important for protecting sensitive environments or managing public safety.\n\n- **Health and safety closures:** The Minister can close off areas or restrict access when there's a risk to public health or safety (for example, during bushfires or floods).\n\n- **Permits and enforcement:** Creates a system where people may need permits to access certain areas, and sets penalties (up to $5,000) for breaking the rules. It also allows fines to be paid on the spot ($315) for minor offences.\n\n- **Modern communication:** Official notices can be served by email.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n\n- Anyone who uses Crown land for recreation, camping, grazing, or business\n- Regional councils and the Outback Communities Authority (who can receive land transfers)\n- People with long-term licences or leases on Crown land\n- Anyone applying for permits to access restricted areas\n\n**Why it matters:**\n\nThis is the rulebook that determines whether you can camp on a particular beach, hold an event in a park, or access land after a bushfire. It balances public access with environmental protection and gives the government flexible tools to manage land responsibly."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":5,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The regulations repeal the 2010 regulations and replace them with a new set of prescriptions: a $25,000 disposal threshold, specified disposal circumstances, ministerial powers to designate/restrict/prohibit activities on unalienated Crown land, a permit regime (fees, waivers, revocation), occupation periods and electronic service rules. The transitional provision preserves existing entitlements under statutory indentures, but the overall regulatory scope and administrative discretion are updated by the new instrument."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple cross‑references to the Crown Land Management Act 2009 (e.g. sections 25, 27, 61, 75) requiring reading-in of primary legislation to fully understand effect","Extensive ministerial discretions without detailed mandatory procedures (consultation and permit conditions phrased as what the Minister ‘thinks fit’)","Prescriptive operational rules (notice display at entry points; occupation periods) combined with broad exceptions","Financial and transactional thresholds and categories (prescribed amount $25,000; specified disposal circumstances) that affect who can buy or occupy land","Penalty and expiation regime consistently applied (maximum $5,000; expiation $315) across multiple contraventions","Permit regime with ministerial control over application form, fees, waivers and revocation (administrative and compliance burdens)","Repeal and transitional clause replacing the 2010 regulations, requiring comparison of legacy entitlements (statutory indentures preserved)","Defined geographic categories (Adelaide Park Lands, Greater Adelaide, outback, regional council) that alter application by area"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations replace the 2010 Crown Land Management Regulations and set how the Minister manages unalienated Crown land: they prescribe a $25,000 disposal threshold, list specific circumstances for land disposal (including licensees, statutory indentures, regional councils and the Outback Communities Authority), allow the Minister to designate, restrict or prohibit activities and require permits, fix occupation periods and permit service by email. They affect land users, licensees, councils and prospective purchasers by allocating decision‑making to the Minister, creating permit fees and penalties (up to $5,000; expiation $315), and changing access and transactional rules."},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope cannot be assessed. The document submitted contains no legislative text — only a 'Page Not Found' error from the South Australian legislation website. A comparison between original and current intent is not possible without access to the actual regulations."},"complexity_factors":["No substantive legislative text was provided — the input is a website error page, not legislation","Complexity cannot be meaningfully assessed without actual regulatory content","Score of 1 reflects the absence of any legal material to analyse, not the inherent simplicity of the subject matter"],"plain_english_summary":"The Crown Land Management Regulations 2024 (SA) could not be analysed because the source link returned a “Page Not Found” error, so no regulatory text was retrieved and no legal analysis is possible. If you need the instrument, search www.legislation.sa.gov.au or check the South Australian Government Gazette. Generally, Crown land regulations govern use, leasing, sale and management of state-owned land and affect farmers, businesses, councils and community groups."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/crown-land-management-regulations-2024","history":"/api/acts/crown-land-management-regulations-2024/history","analysis":"/api/acts/crown-land-management-regulations-2024/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/crown-land-management-regulations-2024/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/crown-land-management-regulations-2024/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/crown-land-management-regulations-2024/documents"}}