12Subsequent dealings with revested lands

12 Subsequent dealings with revested lands

(1)  *[Section 12 Subsection (1) amended by No. 28 of 1976, s. 74 and Sched. III ]*Subject to this Act where any land is vested in the Crown under this Act that land may be disposed of or otherwise dealt with in like manner as if it were Crown land within the meaning of the Crown Lands Act 1976 .

(2)  *[Section 12 Subsection (2) amended by No. 46 of 1991, s. 4 and Sched. 3 ]*Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) , where any land is vested in the Crown pursuant to the registration of an abandoned land notice the Minister may in the name and on behalf of the Crown grant or transfer to any person any estate or interest in that land that would have been vested in that person or to which he would have been entitled if that notice had not been registered.

(3)  *[Section 12 Subsection (3) amended by No. 46 of 1991, s. 4 and Sched. 3 ]*The Minister shall not exercise his powers under subsection (2) in respect of any land if –

(a) any compensation has been paid under this Act in respect of the registration of the abandoned land notice in respect of that land; or

(b) there is subsisting in the land any estate or interest vested in any person other than the Crown, not being an estate or interest that was excluded from the operation of the notice.

(4)  Where any estate or interest is vested in any person under subsection (2) all rights to compensation under this Act in respect of that estate or interest are extinguished.