8Vesting in NPW Minister of certain former State forests

8 Vesting in NPW Minister of certain former State forests

8 Vesting in NPW Minister of certain former State forests

(1) The lands described in Schedule 4 vest in the NPW Minister on behalf of the Crown for the purposes of Part 11 of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 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), the lands described in Schedule 4 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.

s 8: Am 2017 No 17, Sch 2.14 [2].