Western Australian Current Acts

CONSERVATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1984 - SECT 17A

17A .         Maps of categories of land, deposit and inspection of etc.

        (1)         A map of every —

            (a)         timber reserve; and

            (b)         national park; and

            (c)         conservation park; and

            (d)         nature reserve; and

            (e)         marine nature reserve; and

            (f)         marine park; and

            (g)         marine management area,

                certified under the hand of an authorised land officer shall be deposited in the Department as defined in the Land Administration Act 1997 .

        (2)         A map of every State forest certified under the hand of an authorised land officer shall be deposited in the Department (as defined in section 3 of this Act).

        (3)         A map deposited under subsection (1) or (2) shall be open to public inspection on payment of the prescribed fee.

        (4)         Any land or waters excised from or added to any of the areas referred to in subsection (1) or (2) shall be indicated on such map and certified under the hand of an authorised land officer.

        (5)         All maps and plans certified under the hand of an authorised land officer to be copies of the original maps or plans or of portions thereof deposited in the relevant Department, are admissible in evidence in any court or before any person having by law or the consent of parties authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence, and are evidence for the same purpose and to the same extent as the originals would be if they were produced.

        (6)         Judicial notice shall be taken of the signature of an authorised land officer to any map or plan or certified copy of a map or plan or of a portion thereof.

        (7)         Where it is impracticable at the time of the reservation of any land or waters referred to in subsection (1) or (2) to define by survey an area excluded therefrom —

            (a)         the area may be approximately specified in maps deposited under subsection (1); and

            (b)         plans of survey may be prepared, under the direction of an authorised land officer with the approval of the CEO, and deposited under subsection (1) or (2), as the case may require, after the reservation.

        (8)         In this section authorised land officer has the meaning assigned to it by the Land Administration Act 1997 .

        [Section 17A inserted: No. 20 of 1991 s. 16; amended: No. 5 of 1997 s. 15; No. 31 of 1997 s. 141; No. 28 of 2006 s. 187 and 209.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 28 of 2015 s. 19.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 28 of 2015 s. 20.]

        [Heading deleted: No. 28 of 2015 s. 21.]