Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts Australian Capital Territory Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) If rental housing is provided by the Territory on unleased land, the Executive is empowered, subject to subsection (2), to place that land, by writing, under the control of the commissioner.
(2) An instrument executed by the Executive for subsection (1) shall state that the land comprised in the instrument is placed under the control of the commissioner subject to any tenancy in force immediately before the date of execution of the instrument.
(3) On the execution of an instrument referred to in subsection (1), the commissioner is empowered to exercise, in relation to the land comprised in the instrument, all the rights and powers that were exercisable by the Territory in relation to that land immediately before the execution of the instrument.
(4) Subject to this section, the provisions of sections 16 (4) and (5) apply in relation to land placed under the control of the commissioner under this section as if that land were placed under the commissioner's control under section 16 (1).
(5) In this section:
"unleased land" means land vested in the Commonwealth that is not the subject
of any lease or licence under any law authorising the occupation or use of
land vested in the Commonwealth, other than a lease that purports to entitle a
person to occupy premises on a fortnightly tenancy as the lessee of the
Commonwealth .