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Public Works Act 1981

Irrigation

223: Minister not bound to acquire land

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“Minister can use land for irrigation without buying it”

The Minister can build, maintain, and use irrigation works without having to buy the land where the works are located. This doesn’t include the main water supply structures outside the irrigation area. The Minister or someone they allow can go onto the land at a reasonable time to do this work.

If the Minister uses land for irrigation works without buying it, they might have to pay the landowner for using it. The amount they pay is worked out using the rules in section 60 of the law.

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Part 19 Irrigation

223Minister not bound to acquire land

  1. The Minister may erect, construct, provide, maintain, repair, and use any work, other than headworks outside the irrigation district, authorised by this Part, or the provisions of any former enactment relating to irrigation, without being bound to acquire the land or any portion of the land used for the purposes of that work; and for any of those purposes the Minister or any person acting with his authority may enter at any reasonable time upon any such land.

  2. If the Minister, acting under the authority of subsection (1) or under any other lawful authority, uses land for the purposes of any work described in the said subsection (1) without acquiring it, any compensation payable in respect of the use of the land shall be determined in accordance with section 60.

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  • 1936 No 36 s 29