Notice of completion of works
6 Notice of completion of works
s. 6
On completion of the works in connexion with the diversion of the Yarra River the Board of Works shall cause notice of such completion to be published in the Government Gazette.
Upon publication of the notice-
the former river course shall be divested from the Board of Works and the bed soil and banks of the new course of the river shall be deemed to be vested in the Board of Works pursuant to section 271 of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1958;
the Order in Council dated 26th March, 1935 permanently reserving certain land as a site for a public park and recreation and the Crown grant dated the same day whereby the said land was granted to trustees on trust for that purpose and all regulations made in respect of that land shall be deemed and taken for all purposes to relate also to so much of the former river course not required for the highway as is situated in Yarra Bend Park;
the balance of the former river course shall be deemed to be unalienated land of the Crown freed and discharged from all trusts encumbrances reservations limitations and restrictions whatsoever and from every estate or interest therein; and
so much of the common boundary between the cities of Kew and Northcote as before the diversion lay along the centre of the former river course shall lie along the centre of the new course of the river.
In this section "former river course" means the bed soil and banks that as the result of the diversion of the Yarra River under this Act cease to be part of the course of the river.
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