73Leasing of recreation reserves for farming, grazing, afforestation, or other purposes

1. Where any recreation reserve or any part of such a reserve is not for the time being required for the purpose for which it was classified, or where the Minister considers it in the public interest, or where the administering body of any recreation reserve has decided under section 53(1)(a)(ii) that it is necessary or desirable to farm or graze the reserve or any part thereof, leases of the reserve or of any part thereof may be granted by the administering body with the prior consent of the Minister in cases where the reserve is vested in such a body, or by the Minister in any other case.

2. Where the administering body has decided under section 53(1)(a)(ii) that it is necessary or desirable to afforest any part of a recreation reserve, leases of the whole or any part thereof may be granted by the administering body with the prior consent of the Minister in cases where the reserve is vested in such a body, or by the Minister in any other case.

3. Where any recreation reserve or any part of such a reserve is not being used for the purposes of a recreation reserve and in the opinion of the Minister is not likely to be used for that purpose, but it is inadvisable or inexpedient to revoke the reservation, leases of the whole or any part thereof may be granted by the administering body with the prior consent of the Minister in cases where the reserve is vested in such a body, or by the Minister in any other case.

4. Every lease granted under subsection (1) or subsection (2) or subsection (3),—

5. in the case of a reserve vested in an administering body, shall be subject to the further provisions set out in Schedule 1 relating to leases of recreation reserves issued pursuant to that subsection:
6. in the case of a reserve vested in the Crown, shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part 3B of the Conservation Act 1987 and those provisions shall apply as follows:
   1. in the case of any concession over or in respect of a reserve controlled or managed by an administering body, every reference in the said Part 3B to a conservation management strategy or conservation management plan shall be read as a reference to a management plan approved under section 41 of this Act, but otherwise the said Part 3B shall apply as if every reference to a conservation area were a reference to such a reserve and with any other necessary modifications:
   2. in the case of any other reserve vested in the Crown, the said Part 3B shall apply as if every reference to a conservation area were a reference to such a reserve and with any other necessary modifications.

7. Before granting any lease under subsection (1), or subsection (2), or subsection (3), the administering body shall give public notice in accordance with section 119 specifying the lease proposed to be granted, and shall give full consideration in accordance with section 120 to all objections and submissions in relation to the proposal received pursuant to the said section 120.

8. No member of an administering body may become the lessee of any land under the control of that body without the prior consent in writing of the Minister.

9. Any lease granted under this section may, with the approval of the administering body, be surrendered on such terms as are agreed upon by the lessee and the administering body.