21General management powers

21 General management powers S. 21(1) amended by No. 76/1998 (1) The Secretary may lease to the Corporation any Crown land (whether or not reserved under the **Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978**) on any terms and conditions that the Secretary may determine. (2) A public statutory authority may lease to the Corporation any land vested in it and not immediately required for its purposes on any terms and conditions it may determine. (3) Subject to any lease under subsection (1) or (2)— (a) the Corporation must manage the land as if it were vested land; and (b) without limiting its other powers, the Corporation has over that land the same powers as the land manager has; and (c) the Corporation is entitled to receive and retain for its own use any fees, charges or royalties payable in respect of the land or any forest produce on the land as if it were the land manager, and is not liable to account to the land manager for that money. (4) Unless a lease under this section otherwise expressly provides, any relevant law (within the meaning of the **Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987)** applying to Crown land immediately before it is leased under this section continues to apply. (5) In this section ***land manager*** means a lessor of land under subsection (1) or (2).