Australian Capital Territory
Crown Lands Act 1884     
Republication No 1 (RI)
Effective:  11 May 1989 – 4 March 1996
Republication date of printed version: 31 July 1992
Reissued electronically:  30 January 2008

Last amendment made by Ord1989-38
(republication for initial republication since self-government
and amendments made by Ord1989-38)

Unauthorised version prepared by ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office

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The republished law
This is a republication of the Crown Lands Act 1884 effective 11 May 1989 to 4 March 1996.
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Australian Capital Territory
crown lands act 1884
(new south wales)1
Reprinted as at 31 July 1992
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
Part I—Preliminary and General Provisions
	1.	Short title
	4.	Interpretation
	111.	Road of access through leased land

An Act to regulate the alienation occupation and management of crown lands and for other purposes
Part I—Preliminary and General Provisions
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the “Crown Lands Act 1884”.2
Interpretation
4.  In this Act, unless the context necessarily requires a different meaning, the expression—
 “Lease” means a lease of land vested in the Commonwealth;
 “Licence” means a licence to occupy or use any land vested in the Commonwealth.
Road of access through leased land
111.  Every holder of a lease or licence shall be entitled to a road of access and also to free ingress and egress thereby to and from the lands held by him to the nearest public road through and over any land vested in the Commonwealth whether subject to a lease or not if no access to the lands held by him by means of a public road or track shall be provided, and such road shall not interfere with any buildings garden stock or drafting yards belonging to such lessee or licensee and shall in every case follow such a direction and be so marked as to occasion as little damage or inconvenience to the lessee as may be possible, and the Minister shall have power to close any such road upon giving three months notice to that effect in the Gazette.

NOTES
1. The Crown Lands Act 1884 of the State of New South Wales (48 Vic. No. 18) as shown in this reprint was one of the laws in force in the Australian Capital Territory before 1 January 1911 and was therefore continued in force by the Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909 of the Commonwealth.
2. This reprint sets out the provisions of the Crown Lands Act 1884 of the State of New South Wales, as in force immediately before Self-Government day (11 May 1989).  Those provisions have effect with respect to National Land on and after Self-Government day by virtue of the National Land Ordinance 1989.
	The text of the Crown Lands Act 1884 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory as at 10 August 1984 comprises Part 9 of Schedule 2 to the New South Wales Acts Application Act 1984 (No. 41, 1984) as amended, for details of those amendments and amending laws made before 1 January 1911 see (a).
	The Crown Lands Act 1884 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory has been amended since 10 August 1984 as indicated in the Tables below.
Table of Ordinances
Ordinance	Number  
and year	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

Self-Government (Consequential Amendments) Ordinance	38, 1989	10 May 1989	Ss. 1 and 2:  10 May 1989
Remainder:  11 May 1989 (see s. 2 (2) and Gazette 1989, No. S. 164)
	—	

(a) The Crown Lands Act 1884, in its application in the Territory, comprises the Crown Lands Act 1884 as amended before 1 January 1911 by the following Acts—
		Crown Lands Act of 1889
		Crown Lands Act of 1895
		Public Roads Act of 1897
		Sydney Harbour Trust Act, 1900
		Timber Licenses Act, 1902
		Crown Lands Amendment Act of 1905
		Mining Act, 1906
		Mining (Amendment) Act, 1907
		Crown Lands (Amendment) Act, 1908
		Forestry Act, 1909
		Crown Lands (Amendment) Act, 1910,
	and as further amended after that date by the New South Wales Acts Application Act 1984.  The amendments so made have been incorporated in the text of the Crown Lands Act 1884 in Part 9 of Schedule 2 to the last mentioned Act.
	Sections 2 and 3, sections 5 to 110 (inclusive), sections 112 to 145 (inclusive) and the Schedule were repealed by the New South Wales Acts Application Act 1984.
Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected

S. 111	am. No. 38, 1989

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