West Lakes Development Act 1969

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—

land includes any estate or interest (legal or equitable) in land and any easement, right, power, or privilege in, under, over, affecting, or in connection with, land;

the Company means Development Finance Corporation Limited, a company incorporated in the State of New South Wales whose registered office at the time when the Indenture was made was situated at 16 O'Connell Street, Sydney in that State;

the Indenture means the indenture which, together with the Schedules, plans and other annexures annexed thereto and forming part thereof, was made on the Twenty-third day of June, 1969, between the Honourable Raymond Steele Hall, Premier of the State of South Australia for and on behalf of the State of the first part, the Minister of the second part and the Company of the third part and has been deposited in the General Registry Office at Adelaide bearing No. 647 of 1969; and, where, pursuant to that indenture, that indenture has been subsequently amended by any agreement or agreements in writing made before or after the commencement of this Act and deposited in the General Registry Office at Adelaide as required by paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 2 of this Act, includes the first mentioned indenture as so amended by that other agreement or those other agreements;

the Minister means the corporation sole whose corporate name is Minister of Marine;

the previous Indenture means the Indenture made on the eleventh day of April, 1968, between the Honourable Donald Allan Dunstan, Premier of the State of South Australia for and on behalf of the State, the Minister, The South Australian Housing Trust and the Company and referred to in the Indenture as defined in this subsection.

For the purposes of the Indenture, and without limiting the generality of the scheme referred to in recital (4) of the Indenture, the scheme shall be deemed to include—

the excavation of the Basin, referred to in paragraph 25 of the Fourth Schedule to the Indenture, of impounded water to form a lake, the reclamation of land adjacent thereto and the development of parcels of land within West Lakes for residential, shopping, commercial, industrial, recreational or institutional development or for any number of such types of development; and

the flushing of the Basin with seawater as provided in that Schedule and the provision of bank protection along its shores; and

the entry of seawater into the Basin by way of the Water Conduit referred to in that Schedule and constructed into Gulf St. Vincent and by way of the Head Works referred to therein which will be located at or towards the southern end of the Basin; and

provision for handling External Stormwater Drainage referred to in that Schedule which enters West Lakes from land outside West Lakes; and

the provision within West Lakes of roads, bridges, Internal Stormwater Drainage referred to in that Schedule and water and sewerage services in accordance with the Indenture and this Act; and

the laying out of certain roads, streets, vehicle parking areas and thoroughfares and the creation of allotments of land and their subsequent use as the Corporation within the meaning of the Indenture shall, subject to the Indenture and this Act, from time to time think necessary or desirable.

Where the Indenture that has been deposited in the General Registry Office at Adelaide bearing No. 647 of 1969 has been amended by any subsequent agreement in writing between the Premier and the Corporation as provided in clause 13 of the Indenture, then, notwithstanding anything contained in the Registration of Deeds Act 1935 or any other Act—

the Premier shall cause each of such agreements to be deposited in the General Registry Office at Adelaide and shall cause the Registrar-General of Deeds to be informed in writing that such agreement is an amendment of that Indenture; and

the Registrar-General of Deeds shall, by endorsement on the outside cover page of that Indenture, indicate that that Indenture has been amended by such agreement which shall be referred to in the endorsement by the General Registry Office number assigned thereto.

Expressions used in this Act shall, unless a contrary intention appears, have the same respective meanings as in the Indenture.