STATE LANDS PROTECTION
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- “repealed Act” means the State Lands Encroachments Act 1883 repealed by this Act;
- “State land” has the meaning given by section 3;
- “structure” includes any of the following:
- (a) a building, including a building constructed of short-lived materials;
- (b) a post, pile, stake, pipe, chain, wire or any other similar thing fixed to the ground;
- (c) a dock, wharf or jetty, or a floating structure that is or is to be permanently moored;
- (d) a tunnel, foundation or pit, or an underpass or excavation works;
- (e) a drain, canal, culvert or lined water channel;
- (f) a seawall, revetment, groyne, weir or dyke;
- (g) a billboard, signboard, hoarding, fence, partition, sun-shading device or canopy, an awning or advertising structure, or a platform, safety netting or other temporary structure;
- (h) a roof, cladding, curtain wall, bracket, cornice or other exterior feature of a building that is installed on, forms part of or projects outwards from a building;
- (i) a road or path;
- (j) a flyover, overpass, viaduct or bridge, whether or not only for pedestrians or vehicles;
- (k) any works for the reclamation of land that are or are liable to be, or would, but for the reclamation, be or be liable to be, covered wholly or partly by water;
- “substance”, in relation to State land, includes earth, stone, clay, gravel, sand, shell, minerals, mineral oil, natural gas and other materials found on, in or forming part of the State land;
