What government power allows the state to acquire title to property that has been abandoned?
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2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires — “assessor” means a member of the panel of assessors appointed under section 26(2); “Board” means an Appeals Board constituted under section 19(1); “Collector” has the meaning given by the Land Revenue Collection Act 1940; “Commissioner” means a Commissioner of Appeals or a Deputy Commissioner of Appeals, appointed under section 19(2), and includes an acting Commissioner of Appeals or acting Deputy Commissioner of Appeals; “common property” and “lot” have the respective meanings given by the Land Titles (Strata) Act 1967; “land” includes any airspace, subterranean space, foreshore, and benefits to arise out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth; “management corporation”, in relation to any land comprised in a strata title plan, means the management corporation constituted in respect of that strata title plan under the Land Titles (Strata) Act 1967; “non‑lot acquisition” means an acquisition under this Act of any common property (and no other land) comprised in a strata title plan; “person interested” includes every person claiming an interest in compensation to be made on account of the acquisition of land under this Act, but does not include a tenant by the month or at will; “remaining surface land” means any land (and airspace) above which only the airspace, or any land (and subsoil) below which only the subterranean space, is or has been acquired under this Act; “severed land”, for an owner of land, means any land remaining after any other part of the owner’s land is severed because of an acquisition under this Act; “State title” means any grant, any grant in fee simple or estate in perpetuity, or any State lease (of whatever tenure) whenever issued or granted by or on behalf of the Crown, the State or the East India Company; “strata title plan” and “subsidiary proprietor” have the respective meanings given by the Land Titles (Strata) Act 1967; “subterranean space” means the subsoil below the surface of the earth; “temporarily occupied land” means any land temporary possession of which is or has been taken in accordance with a direction under section 42. [17/2001; 19/2007; 26/2014; 12/2015] (2) For the purposes of this Act, the following persons are deemed persons “entitled to act” as and to the extent provided:
(3) Despite subsection (2)(h) and sections 34 and 35 of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act 2004, a management corporation for a strata title plan is deemed for the purposes of this Act, competent to receive the compensation money payable under this Act for any non‑lot acquisition relating to that strata title plan. [26/2014] |
