(1) Subject to
subsection (2) and to section 12EB(2) of the
Country Areas Water Supply Act 1947 but otherwise in accordance with Part 9 of
the Land Administration Act 1997 , the Minister may sell or otherwise deal
with any land, or any estate or interest in land, acquired by a former
Minister, a statutory authority, the former Commission or the Minister and
vested in the Minister for the purposes of this Act or a relevant Act and no
longer required for such purposes.
(2) Where any such
land, estate or interest acquired by a former Minister, a statutory authority,
the former Commission or the Minister was not acquired under this Act or any
other Act by way of compulsory taking for any public work, sections 187, 188,
189, 190, and 191 of the Land Administration Act 1997 shall not have effect
in relation thereto.
[Section 78 inserted: No. 25 of 1985 s. 18;
amended: No. 73 of 1995 s. 42; No. 31 of 1997 s. 137(9) and 142; No. 38 of
2007 s. 118; No. 25 of 2012 s. 91.]