Crown Land Management Act 2016

For the Public Spaces (Unattended Property) Act 2021, the Minister is the occupier of vacant Crown land.

An authorised officer may exercise any power conferred on the Minister by the operation of this section.

An authorised officer may, on behalf of the Minister, take proceedings for the trespass committed on the vacant Crown land by animals impounded by virtue of this section.

For the purposes of subsection (3), the Minister is taken to be in exclusive possession of vacant Crown land.

This section does not—

prevent a court attendance notice being filed for an offence against section 9.2 or 9.3, or

affect any proceedings for the offence.