Page 4624 - Week 15 - Thursday, 21 November 1991
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Under self-government, the surveying and mapping of Canberra are administered by the ACT Government. To accommodate this change, the Surveyors (Amendment) Bill 1991 provides for the amendment of the Surveyors Act 1967 so that the ACT survey function will be administered under the Chief Surveyor in place of the Commonwealth Surveyor-General.
As a consequence of the amendment to the Surveyors Act 1967, it is necessary to amend the Real Property Act 1925 to allow sections in the Act relevant to the survey function to be administered by an officer appointed by the Territory Minister. The Real Property Act 1925 provides for the declaration of titles to land in the Territory and also facilitates the transfer of land in the Territory.
Section 64 of the Real Property Act 1925 provides that, if the requirements as to the deposit of a map or plan referred to in that section are not complied with, or if it is not approved by the Surveyor-General for Australia, then it is not incumbent upon the Registrar of Titles to bring the land under the provisions of the Act or to proceed with the registration of a transfer or a lease. The Real Property (Amendment) Bill 1991 amends the reference to the Surveyor-General for Australia in section 64 to be a reference to the Chief Surveyor. Mr Speaker, the explanatory memorandum has been presented.
Debate (on motion by Mr Kaine) adjourned.
LAKES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (10.53): Mr Speaker, I present the Lakes (Amendment) Bill 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
This Bill has come to the Assembly and it is going to be passed, I am sure, in the life of this parliament. It relates to amendments to the Lakes Act 1976, which controls the commercial and recreational activities taking place on Lake Ginninderra, Lake Tuggeranong and the Molonglo River upstream of Dairy Flat Bridge. The Bill does not relate to activities on Lake Burley Griffin, which, being national land - I will have to look at that definition - is governed by Commonwealth legislation.
Mr Jensen: By definition, land includes water.
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