New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CROWN LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 2016 - SECT 4.8

4.8 Classification of vested land under Local Government Act 1993

(1) Transferable Crown land vested in a local council under this Division is taken to have been acquired by the council as community land under the Local Government Act 1993 on its vesting, except as provided by subsection (2).

(2) The Minister may, in a council vesting notice, declare that the land to which it applies is to be acquired by the local council concerned as operational land under the Local Government Act 1993 on its vesting.

(3) The Minister may make a declaration under subsection (2) only if the council satisfies the Minister that--

(a) the land does not fall within any of the categories for community land under the Local Government Act 1993 , or

(b) the land could not continue to be used and dealt with as it currently can if it were required to be used and dealt with as community land.