16Property

16 Property

16 Property

(1) The powers of the Board to acquire or dispose of lands shall not be exercised except with the consent of the Minister.

(2) The Board may, pursuant to its powers conferred by section 50 of the Interpretation Act 1987, acquire and hold lands for purposes connected with the establishment, maintenance or control of zoological parks by it, and may maintain and control any lands so held by it.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in the Crown Land Management Act 2016—

(a) the Minister may transfer an estate in fee simple in—

(i) any Crown land (within the meaning of that Act), or

(ii) any of the lands described in Schedules 3 and 4,

to the Board, and

(b) the lands transferred to the Board under paragraph (a)—

(i) shall vest in and be held, for the purposes of this Act, by the Board, and

(ii) may, subject to subsection (1), be disposed of or otherwise dealt with by the Board,

as if the lands had, immediately before the transfer, been freehold lands and had been acquired by the Board by purchase.

(4) A grant under subsection (3) shall be subject to such exceptions, reservations and conditions as are specified in the transfer.

(5) Upon the transfer of lands under subsection (3), all trusts, conditions, provisos, encumbrances, restrictions on alienation, appropriations, dedications and reservations are, to the extent to which, immediately before the transfer, they affected those lands, revoked and annulled.

(6) Nothing in subsection (3) affects the power of the Minister to appoint the Board to be a Crown land manager of any land dedicated or reserved under the Crown Land Management Act 2016, or the power of the Minister to transfer land to the Board under that Act.

(7) Lands acquired by the Board (otherwise than under section 17) shall, in respect of that acquisition, be exempt from stamp duty under the Stamp Duties Act 1920.