Abandoned Lands Act 1973. Country/Territory Australia Territorial subdivision Tasmania Document type Legislation Date 1973 (2022) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to repeal the Abandoned Lands Act 1965 and to make fresh provision for the reversion and revesting in Her Majesty of lands that have been abandoned. Subject Land & soil Keyword Land tenure Abandoned land/unoccupied land Cadastre/land registration Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific Abstract An Act to provide for the control of abandoned lands in Tasmania. The Minister may issue an abandoned land notice in respect of land which meets requirements set out in section 4. Where the Minister is satisfied that a person is entitled to any estate or interest in the land to which an abandoned land notice relates, he may exclude from the operation of the notice those rights or, by agreement with that person, some other rights in substitution therefore. Land subject to a notice shall revert to and revest in the Crown freed and discharged from all estates and interests subsisting in any other person, save only such as may expressly be excluded from the operation of the notice. Objection may be made with the Director-General of Lands. Section 11 provides for compensation in respect of registration of abandoned land notices. Full text English Website legislation.tas.gov.au