27Cancelling vesting of reserves

1. Any vesting (whether by any Provincial Ordinance, Act, grant, Order in Council, or in any other manner, and whether before or after the commencement of this Act) in an administering body of any reserve which before that vesting was the property of the Crown may, with the consent of the administering body, be cancelled by the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, and thereupon the land shall cease to be vested in that administering body and shall revest in the Crown subject to the trusts affecting the land and to any valid leases, rights, or easements subsisting thereover at the date of revesting.

2. If at any time the Minister is satisfied that a breach of the trusts upon which any such reserve is vested has been committed, or that after the expiration of 5 years from the date of the vesting of the reserve the land is not being used for the purpose for which it is vested, whether that period of 5 years has expired before the commencement of this Act or will thereafter expire, or that the administering body has failed to comply with the provisions of this Act, he or she may cause to be served on the administering body a notice in writing stating that unless cause to the contrary is shown in writing within 2 months he or she will cancel the vesting.

3. If within that period of 2 months the administering body shows cause as aforesaid, the Minister may in his or her discretion either decide to take no further action or he or she may inquire into the question whether or not the vesting should be cancelled.

4. If the Minister is of the opinion that the vesting should be cancelled, or if within that period of 2 months the administering body does not show cause as aforesaid, the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, cancel the vesting, and thereupon the reserve shall revest in the Crown subject to the trusts affecting the same and to any valid leases, rights, or easements subsisting thereover at the date of revesting.

5. On the cancellation of any vesting, any record of title or other instrument of title issued in respect of the reserve must, on the written request of the Commissioner, be noted accordingly by the Registrar-General of Land.

6. Subsection (1) shall extend and apply with respect to reserves the control of which has been vested in the Minister of Tourism, but subject to the consent of that Minister, and any notice issued cancelling that vesting of control shall have the effect both of removing the land concerned from the control of that Minister and also of removing the land concerned from the operation and provisions of the Tourist and Health Resorts Control Act 1908.