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CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
LEGISLATIVE ASSENIBLY QUESTION
Question No. 386
Gaming and Liquor Authority - Leases
Mr MOORE - Asked the Chief Minister upon notice on 16 April 1991:
(1) How many leases have been issued through the Gaming and Liquor Authority
(GALA) on a "concessional" basis over the past ten years?
(2) To which organisations were those leases granted?
(3) For what purposes were those leases granted?
(4) Where are those leases situated?
(5) What were the concessional arrangements for those leases? _
(6) What basis or principle was employed for granting those "concessional" leases
under GALA instead of the Leases (Special Purposes) Act 1925?
MR KAINE - The answer to the Members question is as follows:
No leases have been issued "through the Gaming and Liquor Authority over the past 10 years. If the question seeks details of leases issued to the Gaming and Liquor Authority I provide the following information:
(1-6) Four leases were granted by the Commonwealth of Australia to the AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY GAMING AND LIQUOR ALTIHORITY, a Body Corporate constituted under the Australian Capital Territory Gaming and Liquor Authority Act 1981, during the past ten years for the purpose of conducting an office or agency of the Authority as authorised under its Act.
The principle employed at the time the leases were granted was the same as applied to the grant to business or commercial leases with the possible exception of the grants being made by direct sale which was necessary having regard to the extremely limited use to which the. leased land could be put and that no other lessee could hold such a lease.
The Authority was offered the option in each case to pay the market value or market rent as assessed by the Commonwealths valuation advisors, as was the case with business or commercial lessees at those times.
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