New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CROWN LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 2016 - SECT 13.2

13.2 Exclusion of minerals and qualifications from dealings under Act

(1) A sale, lease or other disposal of land under this Act does not include any minerals contained in the land.

(2) The minerals excluded by subsection (1) are minerals as defined in this Act at the time when the land is contracted to be sold or when the lease commences or the disposal takes place.

(3) The Registrar-General must record any qualification required by the Minister and notified to the Registrar-General when creating a folio of the Register for land under this Act.

(4) A sale, lease or other disposal of land under this Act is subject to any qualification approved by the Minister.

(5) In this section--

"qualification" means--

(a) a reservation or exception considered by the Minister to be in the public interest, or

(b) without affecting any liability under the Mine Subsidence Compensation Act 1961 --a condition having the effect of protecting the Crown and any mining lessee against any other liability that could arise from a subsidence as a result of mining operations.