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These Regulations may be cited as the Crown Lands
Regulations 1992.
These Regulations shall come into operation on the commencement of the Crown Lands Act 1992.
The Crown Lands Regulations 1931 in force immediately before the commencement of these Regulations are repealed.
In these Regulations:
agent means a person duly appointed in writing by a person to act as that person's representative.
applicant means a person who has made an application under the Act.
cattle includes camels, horses, asses, mules, bullocks, cows, bulls, and foals and calves over 6 months old.
lease means a lease under the Act.
stock includes cattle, sheep, goats and pigs.
Any Crown land that has been advertised in the Gazette as available for leasing and that is not the subject of a grant of a lease by the Minister shall remain open for leasing as so advertised unless withdrawn or again advertised by notice in the Gazette setting out the conditions for leasing.
Subject to a specific provision contained in a lease, a lease commences on the date of its registration by the Registrar-General.
A lease granted under section 5 of the Act shall contain the following covenants, conditions and provisions:
(a) a covenant for the prompt payment of the rent reserved by the lease;
(b) a condition that the lessee will pay all rates, charges and assessments made, levied, imposed or issued in respect of the leased land whether those rates, charges or assessments are payable at law by the lessee or by the Territory;
(c) a covenant for the maintenance and delivery up of the premises in good and tenantable repair, fair wear and tear and damage by fire, flood, lightning, storm, tempest and earthquake excepted;
(d) a covenant that the lessee will not assign, sublet or underlease the premises without the consent of the Minister; and
a provision for the determination of the lease on 14 days notice.
Where the lessee is allowed to pay for improvements by instalments, it is a covenant of his or her lease that the lessee insures from the commencement of the lease, and keeps insured until he or she has made payment in full for the improvements, in the full value thereof against fire, storm, flood or other event, with an insurance office approved by the Minister, all such improvements which are liable to be destroyed or damaged.
Any such insurance shall be in the joint names of the lessee and the Minister.
The lessee shall lodge the policy of every such insurance with the Minister within 30 days after the issue thereof.
The lessee shall forward to the Minister the receipts for the premiums payable in respect of every such policy within 30 days after they are due.
All sums of money received under any such insurance shall be laid out in reinstating the improvements in respect of which the insurance is received.
For section 27(f) of the Act, the surrender of a lease or part of a lease must be in the appropriate form and must be given to the
Minister for the Minister's acceptance, together with the prescribed fee.
On acceptance of a surrender of a lease, or part of a lease, the
Minister shall cause the form of surrender to be lodged with the
Registrar-General for registration.
When a lease has been partly surrendered the Minister shall cause to be prepared a new plan delineating the amended boundaries of the lease and shall cause a copy of that plan to be lodged with the
Registrar-General for registration under the Land Title Act 2000.
For section 92(2)(a) of the Act, the conditions in Schedule 1 are prescribed.