Policies and guidelines for state land
Use our state land policies and guidance material to help you complete an application form or understand your and the department’s obligations under the Land Act 1994.
Leases guidelines
Additional purpose of a lease guideline (PDF, 188KB)
Diversification of leases for agricultural purposes guideline (PDF, 162KB)
Exemption for land lease transfers guideline (PDF, 129KB)
Leases operational policies
Additional purpose of a lease operational policy (PDF, 164KB)
Diversification of Leases for Agricultural Purposes operational policy (PDF, 170KB)
Excision of area from a freeholding lease operational policy (PDF, 213KB)
Leases over Reserves operational policy (PDF, 139KB)
Lease renewal operational policy (PDF, 184KB)
Lease subdivision operational policy (PDF, 167KB)
Requirements for Minister's approval to sublease operational policy (PDF, 199KB)
Transfer of leases, licences and subleases operational policy (PDF, 144KB)
Lease procedures
Resumption in relation to land under the Land Act 1994 procedure (PDF, 186KB)
Purchasing, exchanging or allocating land guidelines
Allocating state land in coastal areas guideline (PDF, 182KB)
Exchange of state land for native title interests guideline (PDF, 178KB)
Permit to occupy guideline (PDF, 186KB)
Public purpose reservations guideline (PDF, 203KB)
Valuations for dealings under the Land Act 1994 guideline (PDF, 214KB)
Purchasing, exchanging or allocating land operational policies
Allocation of land in priority in terms of the Land Act 1994 operational policy (PDF, 248KB)
Land allocation and specific requirements operational policy (PDF, 288KB)
Land allocation: granting land volumetrically operational policy (PDF, 183KB)
Revenue share policy for local government operational trust land operational policy (PDF, 225KB)
Purchasing, exchanging or allocating land procedures
Covenants providing for no separate transfers procedure (PDF, 170KB)
Issue of tenures to a port authority/corporation procedure (PDF, 196KB)
Leasing land for telecommunication carriers, including for aerial pole routes procedure (PDF, 311KB)
Stock routes guidelines
Changing the certified stock route map guideline (PDF, 176KB)
Fences on stock routes guideline (PDF, 224KB)
Stock routes operational policies
Land dealings over the stock route network operational policy (PDF, 236KB)
Trust land guidelines
Managing actions consistent and inconsistent with the purpose of trust land guideline (PDF, 144KB)
Trust land operational policies
Cemetries exhumation operational policy (PDF, 127KB)
Creation of trust land operational policy (PDF, 172KB)
Mortgage of a deed of grant in trust operational policy (PDF, 128KB)
Using state land guidelines
Carbon rights on state land guideline (PDF, 161KB)
Mining interests including claims/leases and the Land Act 1994 procedure (PDF, 193KB)
Offsets in relation to state lands administered under the Land Act 1994 guideline (PDF, 163KB)
Using state land operational policies
Access rights over non-freehold land operational policy (PDF, 155KB)
Burials on lands administered under the Land Act 1994 operational policy (PDF, 135KB)