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Pastoral Land Act 1992
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82 Temporary closure of access
(1) A pastoral lessee may, for reasons associated with the reasonable
management of the lessee's pastoral lease, after advising the
Board of the intention to do so, by giving public notice and by
reasonable indication on or in the vicinity of the land to which the
notice refers, close any land the subject of the pastoral lease on
which members of the public would otherwise have the right to be
and any access route nominated under section 79 or 81 to that land
or water adjacent to the land, but so that such land or access route
is not closed by the lessee for more than 2 weeks in a year, except
with the approval in writing of the Board.
(1A) The Board may determine the manner in which the public notice is
(2) The Board may direct a pastoral lessee to revoke or amend a
notice under this section in such manner as it thinks fit to ensure
that the public has reasonable access to the land or water without
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unduly interfering with the operations of the pastoral enterprise and
the pastoral lessee must, as soon as practicable, comply with the
direction.
(3) An offence against subsection (2) is an offence of strict liability.