An Act to vest the management and control of that portion of New South Wales known as the Western Division in a Western Lands Commissioner; to grant extension of leases in the said division and tenant-right in certain improvements; and for all purposes necessary and incidental thereto.
This Act is the Western Lands Act 1901.
The objects of this Act are as follows:
(a) to establish an appropriate system of land tenure for the Western Division, and to facilitate new land uses and development opportunities for land in the Western Division,
(b) to regulate the manner in which land in the Western Division may be dealt with,
(c) to provide for the establishment of a formal access network, by means of roads and rights of way, in the Western Division,
(d) to establish the rights and responsibilities of lessees and other persons with respect to the use of land in the Western Division,
(e) to ensure that land in the Western Division is used in accordance with the principles of ecologically sustainable development referred to in section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991,
(f) to promote the social, economic and environmental interests of the Western Division, having regard to both the indigenous and non-indigenous cultural heritage of the Western Division,
(g) to make other provision for the effective integration of land administration and natural resource management in the Western Division.
The provisions of the Crown Lands Act 1989 specified in Schedule 2 (and any regulations under that Act having effect for the purposes of those provisions) apply to and in respect of land in the Western Division in the same way as they apply to and in respect of land in the Eastern and Central Division.
Those provisions so apply with the modifications, and subject to the restrictions, specified in Schedule 2.
In the application of any such provision to and in respect of land in the Western Division, if the expression “Crown Lands Acts” or “this Act” occurs in the provision it is to be read as including the expression “and the Western Lands Act 1901”.
Except as provided by this Act or the Crown Lands Acts, the Crown Lands Act 1989 does not apply to land in the Western Division.
This section is subject to section 35XC (6).
That subsection provides that a lease granted under section 35XC (a
Schedule 3 has effect.
In this Act, unless the context necessarily requires a different meaning, the expression: