Covenants and agreements affecting Treasury Complex site
Revocation of reservations
Compensation not payable
Powers under this Act additional to other powers
Regulations
Administration of Act
Schedule 1 – Treasury Complex Site
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CROWN LANDS (TREASURY COMPLEX) BILL
2026
(Brought in by the Treasurer, the Honourable Eric Abetz)
A BILL FOR
An Act to enable the issue of one or more titles under the
Land Titles Act 1980 for Crown land situated at 21 Murray
Street, Hobart, and for related purposes
Be it enacted by Her Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by
and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Crown Lands
(Treasury Complex) Act 2026.
Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which this
Act receives the Royal Assent.
Interpretation
In this Act, unless the contrary appears –
commencement day means the day on which
this Act commences;
Crown land has the same meaning as in the
Crown Lands Act 1976;
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direct means direct in writing;
Director-General of Lands has the same
meaning as in the Crown Lands Act
1976;
limitation, in relation to land, means any trust,
reservation, restriction, exception,
encumbrance, limitation, estate or
interest in or in relation to the land,
however created or imposed;
Minister means the Minister administering the
Crown Lands Act 1976;
Recorder of Titles means the person
appointed as Recorder of Titles under
section 4 of the Land Titles Act 1980;
Register means the register of title kept under
section 33 of the Land Titles Act 1980;
Treasury Complex site has the meaning
given by section 4.
4. Treasury Complex site
(1) The Treasury Complex site comprises all that
area of land of about 5 689 square metres shown
as Lot 1, and bounded by a heavy black line, on
Plan 11660 in the Central Plan Register.
(2) A reduced copy of the plan referred to in
subsection (1) is set out, by way of illustration
only, in Schedule 1.
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5. Treasury Complex site vested in Crown
Any land within the Treasury Complex site that,
immediately before the commencement day, is
not Crown land vests in the Crown on that day.
6. Treasury Complex site free from limitations
(1) All land within the Treasury Complex site is
taken to be unalienated Crown land on and from
the commencement day until the land is disposed
of under the Crown Lands Act 1976 or any other
Act or law of Tasmania.
(2) On the commencement day, all land within the
Treasury Complex site is freed and discharged
from all limitations except as otherwise
determined by the Minister by notice in the
Gazette.
(3) On the commencement day, all public and
private rights and interests in any land within the
Treasury Complex site are extinguished except
as otherwise determined by the Minister by
notice in the Gazette.
(4) A notice under subsection (2) or (3) –
(a) is taken to have taken effect on the
commencement day; and
(b) is not a statutory rule for the purposes of
the Rules Publication Act 1953.
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7. Crown may create title
(1) The Minister and the Director-General of Lands
may do all things necessary or convenient for the
purposes of creating titles under the Land Titles
Act 1980 to land within the Treasury Complex
site, including titles to areas of land above or
below the surface of land.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1),
applications may be made to the Recorder of
Titles under section 27A of the Land Titles Act
1980 in relation to land within the Treasury
Complex site.
(3) The Minister may direct that the Recorder of
Titles re-arrange or extinguish any folio of the
Register relating to any land within the Treasury
Complex site.
(4) On receipt of a direction under subsection (3),
the Recorder of Titles is to re-arrange or
extinguish a folio of the Register as the Recorder
of Titles considers appropriate.
(5) Any variation or change made under this section
does not constitute a subdivision within the
meaning of the Local Government (Building and
Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1993.
8. Creation of easements
(1) The Minister may create any easements the
Minister considers to be appropriate in relation
to the Treasury Complex site.
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(2) Without limiting the power of the Minister under
subsection (1), the Minister may create
easements for the purposes of –
(a) access to the Treasury Complex site; and
(b) infrastructure and services at, on, under
or over the Treasury Complex site.
(3) The Minister may direct the Recorder of Titles to
record, on the folio of the Register relating to
land which is the subject of the easement, an
easement created under this section.
(4) On receiving a direction under subsection (3),
the Recorder of Titles is to record the easement,
as the Recorder of Titles considers appropriate,
on the relevant folio of the Register.
9. Covenants and agreements affecting Treasury
Complex site
(1) The Minister may enter into a positive or
negative covenant, or both, relating to any land
within the Treasury Complex site on, or in
anticipation of, the sale or transfer of that land.
(2) The Minister may enter into an agreement
concerning the use or development, or both, of
any land within the Treasury Complex site on, or
in anticipation of, the sale or transfer of that
land.
(3) The Minister may direct the Recorder of Titles to
record a covenant or agreement entered into
under this section on the folio of the Register
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relating to land which is the subject of the
covenant or agreement.
(4) On receipt of a direction under subsection (3),
the Recorder of Titles is to record the covenant
or agreement on the relevant folio of the Register
as the Recorder of Titles considers appropriate.
(5) The benefits and burdens of a covenant or
agreement made under this section run with the
land to which the covenant or agreement relates,
and the covenant or agreement is enforceable
between the parties to it and any person deriving
title to the land under any such party.
10. Revocation of reservations
(1) Any instrument made under any Act or the royal
prerogative that reserves, or sets aside, land the
whole of which is within the Treasury Complex
site is revoked.
(2) Any instrument made under any Act or the royal
prerogative that reserves, or sets aside, land only
part of which is within the Treasury Complex
site has no effect in relation to the area of land
that is within the Treasury Complex site.
11. Compensation not payable
No compensation is payable by the Crown in
respect of –
(a) the vesting in the Crown of land under
this Act; or
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(b) the freeing and discharging from
limitations of land, and the extinguishing
of rights in land, by the operation of this
Act; or
(c) anything done, or omitted to be done, in
good faith under the authority, or for the
purposes, of this Act.
12. Powers under this Act additional to other powers
The powers given by this Act in relation to any
dealing with land, or in relation to altering or
otherwise dealing with the Register, are in
addition to any other powers under another Act
or any other law of Tasmania to deal with the
land, or to alter or otherwise deal with the
Register.
13. Regulations
(1) The Governor may make regulations for the
purposes of this Act.
(2) The regulations may be made so as to apply
differently according to matters, limitations or
restrictions, whether as to time, circumstance or
otherwise, specified in the regulations.
(3) The regulations may authorise any matter to be
from time to time determined, applied, approved
or regulated by the Minister, the Director-
General of Lands or the Recorder of Titles.
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14. Administration of Act
Until provision is made in relation to this Act by
order under section 4 of the Administrative
Arrangements Act 1990 –
(a) the administration of this Act is assigned
to the Treasurer; and
(b) the department responsible to the
Treasurer in relation to the administration
of this Act is the Department of Treasury
and Finance.
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SCHEDULE 1 – TREASURY COMPLEX SITE
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