Rosetta Landslip Act 1992 (Tas)

Rosetta Landslip Act 1992

An Act to make provision for the purchase and clearance of certain land affected by earth movements at Rosetta in the City of Glenorchy [Royal Assent 21 December 1992]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Rosetta Landslip Act 1992 .

2. Commencement This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. Interpretation In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires – advisory committee means the committee established under section 5 ; affected area means the area near the junctions of Officer Street, Hone Road and Crosby Road in Rosetta in the City of Glenorchy; affected property means a property in the affected area that is within an area declared to be an A landslip area by an order made under Division 6 of Part 2 of the Local Government (Building and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1993 , and includes any improvements to any such property; application means an application made to the Minister by an eligible owner for the Crown to purchase an affected property owned by that person; the Bank means the bank registered under the Trustee Banks Act 1985 and trading as the Trust Bank and previously trading as, variously, the Hobart Savings Bank, the Savings Bank of Tasmania and the SBT Bank; Council means the Glenorchy City Council; eligible owner means a person who is the owner of the fee simple of an affected property but does not include – (a) the Crown, the Bank or the Council; or (b) a person who has instituted proceedings against the Crown, the Council or the Bank or a person acting on behalf of the Crown, the Council or the Bank in respect of any damage suffered or alleged to have been suffered as a result of any actual or potential earth movement in the affected area; or (c) a person, one of whose predecessors in title was a person referred to in paragraph (b) ; the Fund means the Rosetta Landslip Trust Fund established under section 12 ; requisition means a notice requesting an eligible owner to provide the advisory committee with information in relation to an application made by that eligible owner; send means send by post.