12Vesting in NPW Minister of certain former State forests

12 Vesting in NPW Minister of certain former State forests

12 Vesting in NPW Minister of certain former State forests

(1) The lands described in Schedule 5 vest in the Minister administering the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 on behalf of the Crown for the purposes of Part 11 of that Act for an estate in fee simple, freed and discharged from:

(a) all trusts, obligations, estates, interests, rights of way or other easements, and

(b) any dedication, reservation, Crown grant or vesting to which the lands were subject, and any such dedication, reservation, grant or vesting is revoked.

(2) Despite subsection (1), lands described in Schedule 5 are not freed and discharged from any continued perpetual lease, continued special lease or continued term lease within the meaning of Schedule 1 to the Crown Land Management Act 2016 (or from rights or interests arising under an incomplete purchase within the meaning of that Act of land that was formerly under a lease of that kind) to which the lands were subject immediately before their vesting under this section.

(3) Divisions 1–3 do not apply to land described in Part 1 of Schedules 1–3 (or in Schedule 6) that is also described in Schedule 5.

s 12: Am 2017 No 17, Sch 4.9 [2].