New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CROWN LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 2016 - SECT 3.3

3.3 Minister may appoint Crown land managers

(1) The Minister may, by written instrument (an
"appointment instrument" ), appoint one or more qualified persons to be Crown land managers for specified dedicated or reserved Crown land.

(2) Each of the following is a
"qualified person" for appointment as a Crown land manager--

(a) a local council,

(b) a Local Aboriginal Land Council under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 ,

(c) a prescribed body corporate for the purposes of a provision of the Native Title Act 1993 of the Commonwealth,

(d) a statutory land manager,

(e) the Ministerial Corporation,

(f) an association under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009 ,

(g) a company under the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth,

(h) any other body corporate or corporation constituted by or under another Act,

(i) the head of a government sector agency.

(3) A Crown land manager may be appointed to manage more than one area of dedicated or reserved Crown land at a time.

(4) A corporation constituted by or under another Act appointed as a Crown land manager is authorised to accept the appointment, and to exercise all the functions of a Crown land manager, despite anything in the Act.

(5) A local council may only be appointed as the Crown land manager of dedicated or reserved Crown land that is wholly or partly within the local government area of another local council with the consent of the other council.

(6) The appointment of a qualified person as a Crown land manager does not make the person a statutory body representing the Crown if the person is not already one.