18Dedication of land

18 Dedication of land

18 Dedication of land

(1) The Trust may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare that it proposes to surrender Trust land described or referred to in the notification to the Crown to be dedicated—

(a) for any public purpose specified in the notification, or

(b) if so specified in the notification, as a public road.

(2) When the land is surrendered—

(a) it becomes Crown land reserved from sale, lease or licence under the Crown Land Management Act 2016, and

(b) on revocation of the reservation, it may be dedicated under that Act for the public purpose specified in the notification or under section 12 of the Roads Act 1993 as a public road.

(3) The Trust may, in a notification published under subsection (1), limit the description of, or reference to, land to a specified depth below the surface of the land. If the description or reference is so limited, subsection (2) does not apply to land below the specified depth.

(4) The Trust may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare any elevated or subterranean structure owned by the Trust that continues the line of a public road to be a public road. On the publication of the notification in the Gazette, the structure, except in relation to any vesting of the structure, is taken to be a public road.

s 18: Am 2017 No 17, Sch 2.21 [1].