37Administration of certain existing leases and similar interests

37 Administration of certain existing leases and similar interests

37 Administration of certain existing leases and similar interests

(1) In this section, existing interest means—

(a) a lease, licence, permit, authority, authorisation or occupancy in respect of land referred to in Schedule 3 under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 or the Crown Land Management Act 2016 (or rights or interests arising under an incomplete purchase within the meaning of the Crown Land Management Act 2016 if the land was formerly under a perpetual lease, special lease or term lease of the kind referred to in Schedule 1 to that Act), and

(b) was current and in force immediately before the transfer date.

(2) Despite any other provision of this Part, the administration of matters relating to existing interests is vested in the Trust and for that purpose the Trust has—

(a) in respect of existing interests under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974—the powers of the Minister administering that Act or the Chief Executive of the Office of Environment and Heritage, and

(b) in respect of existing interests under the Crown Land Management Act 2016—the powers of the Minister administering that Act.

(c) (Repealed)

s 37: Am 2015 No 58, Sch 3.96 [7]; 2017 No 17, Sch 2.21 [4] [5].