16Dealings in relation to Trust land

16 Dealings in relation to Trust land

16 Dealings in relation to Trust land

(1) Subject to this Act, the Trust may sell, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of or deal with any Trust land and grant easements or rights-of-way over Trust land or any part of it.

(2) Except as provided by section 18, the Trust may not sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of Trust land within the Parklands.

(3) Except with the consent of the Minister, the Trust may not grant a long-term lease or licence over land within the Parklands.

(4) The Minister may consent under subsection (3) to the granting by the Trust of a long-term lease or licence for a purpose that, in the opinion of the Minister, does not provide facilities for or promote the use of the Parklands by the public, but only if the granting of consent would assist the funding of the Trust’s operations, or generate revenue to be paid into the Sydney Region Development Fund, and the Minister is satisfied that the retention of control by the Trust of the land concerned is not essential—

(a) to ensure that the Parklands act as a corridor linking core habitat (such as habitat of endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland), and

(b) to provide for the north and south areas of the Parklands to be linked by a circulation or access network to enable access to all parts of the Parklands that are available for recreational use, and

(c) to preserve the continuity of the Parklands from north to south so that they operate as a scenic break in the urban fabric of Western Sydney.

(5) The consent of the Minister under subsection (3)—

(a) may be given in relation to particular land or a class of land or a particular disposition of or dealing with land or a class of dispositions or dealings, and

(b) may be subject to conditions, and

(c) may be amended from time to time.

(6) The Trust must establish and maintain a register of all land that is, from time to time, Trust land or managed by the Trust.

(7) In this section, long-term lease or licence means a lease or licence over land within the Parklands for a term that, together with the term of any further lease or licence that may be granted under an option in respect of it, exceeds 25 years.