Leases Act 1972 (ACT)

No. 7 of 1972

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Leases Ordinance 1918-1966.

hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government	I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of , Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council,
(Administration) Act 1910-1970.

Dated this sixth day of March, 1972.

PAUL HASLUCK Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

RALPH. J. HUNT

Minister of State for the Interior.

LEASES ORDINANCE 1972

1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Leases Ordinance

1972.*
(2.) The Leases Ordinance 1918-1966f is in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.
(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, may be cited as the Leases Ordinance 1918-1972.

2.—(1.) Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by inserting at the end thereof the words " or that Act as amended or under the Lands Acquisition Act 1955 or that Act as amended.".

t Ordinance No. 2. 1918; No. 7, 1919: No. 7, 1923; No. 1. 1924; No. 4, 1925; No. 12, 1926; N o . 10, 1927; Nos. 15 and 27, 1933; N o . 29, 1936; No. 27, 1937; N o . 10, 1955; N o . 9, 1958; and N o . 19, 1966.

(2.) A lease, granted under the Leases Ordinance 1918-1955 or under that Ordinance as amended, of land acquired by the Common­ wealth, whether under the Lands Acquisition Act 1955, under that Act as amended or under the Acts repealed by the Lands Acquisition Act 1955, shall be deemed to have been as valid and effectual as if the amendment made by the last preceding sub-section had come into operation on the date of commencement of the Lands Acquisition Act 1955.

3. Section 4AA of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "Seventy thousand dollars," and inserting in their stead the words " Two hundred thousand dollars "; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 9 March 1972.

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—
"(3.) Sub-section (1.) of this section does not prevent
the grant by the Minister of a lease or leases for rural
purposes to a person if the land to be so leased is land that
has been acquired, whether before or after the commence­
ment of this sub-section, by the Commonwealth under the

Lands Acquisition Act 1955 or that Act as amended and,

immediately before being so acquired—

(a)	was land held by that person for an estate in free­ hold; or
(b)	was land held by that person and was land to which a contract or right referred to in section 9 of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910 applied.".