Placing unleased land under housing commissioner’s control
32 Placing unleased land under housing commissioner’s control
The Executive may direct the territory planning authority to place unleased territory land under the control of the housing commissioner.
However, if land that is placed under the housing commissioner’s control under subsection (1) is subject to an existing tenancy, the land is placed under the commissioner’s control subject to the tenancy.
To remove any doubt, the housing commissioner may exercise the commissioner’s powers under section 33 in relation to a tenancy to which subsection (2) applies, including, for example, by ending the tenancy.
A direction under subsection (1) is a notifiable instrument.
In this section:
existing tenancy, for land placed under the housing commissioner’s control, means a tenancy that was in force immediately before the land was placed under the commissioner’s control.
unleased territory land means territory land that is not leased under the Planning Act 2023 or the Unit Titles Act 2001.
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