99Minister may sell Crown land to public authority

99 Minister may sell Crown land to public authority

(1) In this section public authority has the same meaning as in the Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987.

(2) This section applies despite anything to the contrary in any Act.

(3) With the Governor in Council's approval, the Minister may sell Crown land to a public authority at a price and on terms and conditions which the Minister thinks fit, if the Minister is satisfied that the public authority requires the land for a public purpose.

(4) The Minister cannot under subsection (3) sell land to a public authority if the land is for the time being permanently or temporarily reserved under section 4 of the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978.

(5) A public authority may acquire land sold to it under this section for any public purpose for which the authority may acquire or hold land.

S. 99(6) amended by No. 13/1990 s. 41(c).

(6) Without limiting subsection (5), a reference to a public purpose includes, in the case of a municipal council, the purpose of housing or decentralised industry.

(7) The Minister cannot, under subsection (3), sell to a public authority land described in Schedule Three A.

S. 99A inserted by No. 28/1993 s. 4.