South Australian Current Acts

CROWN LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 71

71—Constitution, alteration and abolition of counties, hundreds and towns

        (1)         The Minister may, by lodging a plan with the Registrar-General, after consultation with the Surveyor-General—

            (a)         constitute a county, hundred or town; or

            (b)         alter the boundaries of a county, hundred or town; or

            (c)         abolish a county, hundred or town,

provided that such plan only has effect on deposit of the plan by the Registrar-General in the Lands Titles Registration Office.

        (2)         If land ceases to be comprised in a town in consequence of a plan deposited under subsection (1), the Minister may, by the same plan or by a subsequent plan lodged with the Registrar-General—

            (a)         close roads on that land; and

            (b)         merge any allotments on that land; and

            (c)         by notation on the plan, cause the whole of, or any portions of, that land to revert to the status of unalienated Crown land,

provided that such plan only has effect on deposit of the plan by the Registrar-General in the Lands Titles Registration Office.

        (3)         A road closure under this section has effect despite any other Act or law.

        (4)         In this section—

"road" has the same meaning as in the Roads (Opening and Closing) Act 1991 .