Div 7Transitional provisions

Division 7 — Transitional provisions

224. Conservation and Land Management Act 1984

(1) A thing done or omitted to be done before commencement by, to or in relation to the Executive Director (other than as the body corporate referred to in section 38 of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 as in force before commencement) under, or for the purposes of, an enactment has the same effect after commencement, to the extent that it has any force or significance after commencement, as if it had been done or omitted by, to or in relation to the CEO under, or for the purposes of, that enactment.

(2) The Conservation and Land Management Executive Body established by section 36 of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 (as in force after commencement) is a continuation of, and the same legal person as, the body corporate referred to in section 38 of that Act (as in force before commencement).

(3) Land placed under the management of the Department under section 33(2) of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 before commencement is to be taken to have been placed, on commencement, under the management of the CEO under that Act.

(4) The Registrar of Titles or the Registrar of Deeds and Transfers may make any entry in, or any endorsement or notation on, the title, land register or other record in respect of land that is necessary because of subsection (3).

(5) A reference in a written law or any other instrument to land under the management of the Department under the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 is to be read as a reference to land under the management of the CEO.

(6) A reference in a written law or any other instrument to the Director of Nature Conservation, the Director of Forests or the Director of National Parks is to be read as a reference to the CEO.

(7) In this section —

CEO has the meaning given by section 3 of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 as in force after commencement;

commencement means the time at which section 183 comes into operation;

Executive Director means the Executive Director referred to in section 36 of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 as in force before commencement,

and, unless the contrary intention appears, other words and expressions in this section have the same respective meanings as they have in the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984.

15 The requirement to appoint an Executive Director was removed from the Act and references to the Executive Director were replaced by references to the CEO, see the Pt. 7 Div. 1. Section 454 of that Act is a general transitional provision that applies to references to the Executive Director in written laws.