10Vesting in NPW Minister of former State forests on 1 July 2010 for transfer to Aboriginal ownership

10 Vesting in NPW Minister of former State forests on 1 July 2010 for transfer to Aboriginal ownership

10 Vesting in NPW Minister of former State forests on 1 July 2010 for transfer to Aboriginal ownership

(1) The lands described in Schedule 6 vest, on 1 July 2010, 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) The purposes for which the lands described in Schedule 6 may be dealt with under Part 11 of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 include the vesting of any of the land in an Aboriginal landholding body.

(3) Despite subsection (1), the lands described in Schedule 6 are not freed and discharged from:

(a) 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), or

(b) any Western lands lease within the meaning of Schedule 3 to the Crown Land Management Act 2016,

to which the lands were subject immediately before their vesting under this section.

s 10: Am 2017 No 17, Sch 4.62 [5] [6].