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CROWN LANDS (SHACK SITES) AMENDMENT BILL 2010
FACT SHEET
The Bill amends the Crown Lands (Shack Sites) Act 1997 by deleting section 17
Rental for replacement lease and substituting a provision to enable shack lease
rental to be prescribed in regulations.
The amendment will enable the making of a Regulation to set shack rentals at 2%
of the land value of a shack site as at 2007, or $1500, whichever is the lesser, with
rentals to be adjusted annually in line with the Consumer Price Index.
These measures will reduce rentals from the current 6% of land value.
The amendment and subsequent Regulation implements the recommendation of
the Joint Standing Committee on Environment, Resources and Development
inquiring into the Shack Site Project, which recommended in their Interim Report of
July 2009 that:
"The annual lease fees for shack sites on Crown land as per section 17 of the
Crown Lands (Shack Sites) Act 1997 should be set at the lesser of $1500 or 2% of
the land valuation as at 2007, and thereafter adjusted in line with movements in the
Consumer Price Index.
This amendment will affect 55 shacks on land reserved under the Nature
Conservation Act 2002 and managed by the Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) and
14 on Crown Land Services (CLS) managed sites. A further 24 Crown land shack
sites, at Kingfish Beach, are potentially affected should leaseholds be offered in the
future.
The Government has provided additional funds to PWS to compensate for loss of
rental income.