New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CROWN LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 2016 - SECT 3.1

3.1 Responsibility for management of Crown land

(1) The person responsible for the care, control and management of particular dedicated or reserved Crown land is--

(a) for land with one Crown land manager--the Crown land manager, or

(b) for land with 2 or more Crown land managers--each of the Crown land managers in accordance with any allocation made under section 3.14.

(2) The Minister is responsible for the care, control and management of--

(a) all Crown land that is not dedicated or reserved Crown land, and

(b) all dedicated or reserved Crown land for which there are no Crown land managers.

Note--: This subsection does not affect any responsibility of a local council over a public reserve that is Crown land that it has under section 48 of the Local Government Act 1993 . See section 1.15 (2).

(3) This section does not--

(a) limit the functions of the Minister under this Act or another Act in relation to dedicated or reserved Crown land for which there is a Crown land manager, or

(b) limit the functions of a person or body taken to be the Crown land manager of dedicated or reserved Crown land for the purposes of this Act because of the operation of another Act, or

(c) affect a different allocation of management responsibilities made by another provision of this Act.