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CROWN LANDS AMENDMENT BILL 2015 BILL 13 OF 2015

                                        FACT SHEET
                            Crown Lands Amendment Bill 2015


The Crown Lands Amendment Bill 2015 will consolidate and homogenise the powers to lease and
licence real property assets under the management and control of Portfolio Ministers by:
      removing the current definitions of ‘residential portfolio land’ and ‘other portfolio land’
       and replacing them with a singular definition of ‘portfolio land’ that comprises all land
       under the management and control of a Portfolio Department; and
      extending the current powers exercisable to portfolio Ministers in relation to the leasing
       and licencing of ‘other portfolio land’ to all land under the control and management of a
       Portfolio Minister.
The Bill does not:
      affect any of the powers to lease or licence held by the Minister administering the
       Crown Lands Act 1976 in relation to Crown land under that Minister’s management and
       control; and
      confer upon a Portfolio Minister the power to sell any of the Crown land assets under
       their management and control. The power of sale under the Crown Lands Acts 1976
       remains with the Minister administering this Act and is unaffected by this bill.


Background
At present, all portfolio land that contains a dwelling (‘residential portfolio land’) can only be
leased to a person who is not an employee of that Minister’s portfolio department for:
      a term not exceeding 12 months; and
      at a market rent.
The use of this ‘residential portfolio land’ cannot currently be licenced. By contrast no such
limitations exist in relation to:
      any other Crown land administered by a Portfolio Minister; and
      any land, residential or not, administered by the Minister administering the Crown Lands
       Act 1976.
The Bill will provide for the uniform treatment of all portfolio land assets to the effect that
Portfolio Ministers will have consistent powers of lease and licence Crown land to derive
maximum benefit from those assets in the interests of their respective portfolios and consistent
with the administration of all other Crown land under the Crown Lands Act 1976.




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