Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) For the purposes
of —
(a)
holding any right, title, or interest in land passing under section 31 or
taken or otherwise acquired for the purposes of this Part or Schedule 2;
(b)
designating additional land to be in the DBNGP corridor;
(c)
administering any restrictions placed under this Part on land in the DBNGP
corridor;
(d)
conferring rights under section 34; and
(e)
performing any other function under or for the purposes of this Part or
Schedule 2,
the Minister for the
time being appointed by the Governor by order published in the Gazette is a
corporation sole by the name of “the DBNGP Land Access Minister”
with perpetual succession, a common seal and power to do all such things as
are required for those purposes.
(2) A right, title, or
interest —
(a) may
be acquired by the DBNGP Land Access Minister by agreement; or
(b) may
be taken under Part 9 of the Land Administration Act 1997 whereupon, unless
it would be incompatible with the nature of the right, title, or interest for
it to do so, it vests in the DBNGP Land Access Minister,
and in neither case
does the right, title, or interest merge with any estate of the Crown that is
not held under this Part by the DBNGP Land Access Minister.
(3) The DBNGP Land
Access Minister is to —
(a)
perform functions under or for the purposes of this Part or Schedule 2 with,
and in accordance with, the advice, either general or in relation to a
particular matter, of the Act Minister, and not otherwise; and
(b)
inform the Act Minister of —
(i)
any order made under section 33;
(ii)
any conferral of rights under section 34; or
(iii)
any approval under section 34(3) to the exercise of
rights under section 34 by a nominee of the holder.
(4) If the Act
Minister is appointed to be the DBNGP Land Access Minister subsection (3) does
not apply.
[Section 29 amended: No. 53 of 1997 s. 52 and Sch.
4 Div. 1.]