AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LAND (PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT) ACT 1991 

LAND (PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT) CRITERIA FOR FURTHER RURAL LEASE GRANT (MAJURA AND GUNGAHLIN) DETERMINATION 2003

DISALLOWABLE INSTRUMENT DI2003-228

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

This disallowable instrument is being redetermined as a result of the Planning and Land (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002 which transfers certain powers from the Minister/Executive to the Planning and Land Authority.

As part of the Government’s response to the Report into the Administration of the ACT Leasehold’ (the Stein Inquiry) the Government agreed that the renewal of a rural lease should be in accordance with the Rural Lease Policy Guidelines and the Rural Lease Term Plan.  This Disallowable Instrument provides for a lease termination date of 2020 for Block 666 Majura, and Blocks 667, 668, 669 and 260 in the District of Majura and Block 449 in the District of Gungahlin, which is outside the general prescribed term stated in the Rural Lease Term Plan for Majura.

Under subsection 171A(2) of the Act the Minister may prescribe by instrument the conditions subject to which the Planning and Land Authority shall grant a further rural lease.

This disallowable instrument establishes the criteria for the grant of a further lease for rural purposes for Block 666 Majura and Block 667, 668, 669 and 260 Majura and 449 Gungahlin.

This disallowable instrument provides that:

Leases for block 666 Majura and block 667, 668, 669, 260 Majura and 449 Gungahlin may not be granted for a term that extends beyond 31 December 2020; and

That subject to the above, the approval of the grant of a further lease for either block will be subject to the conditions specified for the grant of a further lease for rural purposes contained in Disallowable Instrument No. 23 of 1998.