New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL LAND SERVICES ACT 2013 -

DICTIONARY

In this Act--

"administrator" means an administrator appointed under Part 13.

"animal" includes aquatic and terrestrial animals.

"annual return" means a return lodged or required to be lodged with Local Land Services under section 58.

"approved form" means--

(a) the form prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of the provision in relation to which the expression is used, or

(b) if no such form is prescribed, the form (if any) approved by Local Land Services for the purposes of the provision in relation to which the expression is used.

(a) in relation to an authorised officer appointed by Local Land Services--Local Land Services, or

(b) in relation to an authorised officer appointed by the Minister--the Minister, or

(c) in relation to an authorised officer appointed by the Secretary--the Secretary.

(a) a Public Service agency, State owned corporation and council of a local government area, and

(b) the head of a government agency.

(a) a parcel of land, or

(b) several parcels of land which--

(i) are contiguous with one another or are separated from one another only by a road, river, creek or other watercourse, and

(ii) constitute or are worked as a single property,

Note--: See section 55 (When is a holding within a region?).

(a) water,

(b) native vegetation,

(c) salinity,

(d) soil,

(e) biodiversity,

(f) coastal protection,

(g) marine environment (except a matter arising under the Fisheries Management Act 1994 ),

(h) forestry,

(i) any other matter concerning natural resources prescribed by the regulations under section 5 of the Natural Resources Commission Act 2003 .

(a) the person for the time being entitled to possession of land and includes, if the person so entitled does not reside on the land, the resident manager or other person in charge of the land,

(b) if the land is public land to which no person is entitled to possession--the person having the care, control and management of the land,

(c) if the land is reserved or dedicated for any public use or purpose--the trustee or trustees of the land,

(d) if the land consists of a public road--the roads authority for that road within the meaning of the Roads Act 1993 ,

(e) if the land consists of a travelling stock reserve--Local Land Services,

(f) any other person designated by the regulations as an occupier of land for the purposes of this definition.

(a) the holder, or the holder subject to mortgage, of any lease or licence or promise of any lease or licence from the Crown, or

(b) the holder, or the holder subject to mortgage, of any incomplete purchase or perpetual lease from the Crown, or

(c) the person entitled to an estate of freehold in possession--

(i) whether in fee simple or for life or otherwise, or

(ii) whether at law or in equity, or

(iii) whether absolutely or by way of mortgage, or

(d) the person in whom is vested any land taken or appropriated under the authority of any statute authorising land to be taken or appropriated for the purpose of any private undertaking.

(a) a Minister of the Crown, or

(b) a local authority constituted by or under an Act, or

(c) a Public Service agency, or

(d) a statutory body representing the Crown, or

(e) the trustee or trustees of land reserved or dedicated for any public use or purpose, or

(f) a State owned corporation, or

(g) a member of staff or other person who exercises functions on behalf of any of the above.

(a) Crown land that is not the subject of a contract for sale, or

(b) land, not being a road, that is the subject of a dedication or permanent reservation for public uses or purposes,