Valuer-General v Sydney Fish Market Pty Ltd

• 1. Crown Land
  2. › Crown lease restricted
  3. › Valuation of land
  4. › Whether lease granted under Crown Lands Act 1989 (NSW) or Fish Marketing Act 1994 (NSW)
  5. › Whether s 9(1) of Fish Marketing Act conferred power to grant lease
  6. › Transitional provisions
  7. › Crown Land Management Act 2016 (NSW), Sch 7, Div 7, cl 26(1)
  8. › Valuation of Land Act 1916 (NSW), s 14I
• 1. Statutory Construction
  2. › Source of statutory power
  3. › Whether provision conferred power or was merely facultative
  4. › Passive voice in statutory drafting
  5. › Identification of donee of power
  6. › Fish Marketing Act 1994 (NSW), s 9(1)
  7. › Crown Lands Act 1989 (NSW), ss 6, 7, 34
• 1. Statutory Construction
  2. › Implied repeal
  3. › Whether later specific statute displaced earlier general statute
  4. › Whether actual contrariety clearly apparent
  5. › Crown Lands Act 1989 (NSW), s 6
  6. › Fish Marketing Act 1994 (NSW), s 9
• 1. Crown Land
  2. › Vesting of Crown land in statutory authority
  3. › Whether change of lessor altered character of lease
  4. › Whether vesting in State Property Authority caused land to cease being Crown land
  5. › State Property Authority Act 2006 (NSW), s 19
  6. › Crown Land Management Act 2016 (NSW), s 1.8

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