Melbourne City Link Act 1995

Any 2 or more persons who are parties to the Extension Agreement, or any part of that agreement may, from time to time, by agreement in writing and, if the State is not one of those persons, with the consent of the Minister, vary all or any of the provisions of the Extension Agreement that affect those persons.

All or any of the provisions of the Extension Agreement may be varied from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Extension Agreement.

The Extension Agreement is varied in accordance with the terms of the Integration and Facilitation Agreement and, if there is any variation of the Integration and Facilitation Agreement, the Extension Agreement is varied in accordance with the terms of that variation, and the following subsections of this section do not apply to any such variation.

The Minister must cause to be published in the Government Gazette a notice of an agreement under subsection (1) or a variation under subsection (2), specifying the place or places at which a person may inspect the agreement or a statement of the variation.

An agreement or variation under subsection (1) or (2) comes into operation—

when the notice under subsection (4) is published in the Government Gazette; or

if a later day is specified in the agreement or in the statement of the variation, on that later day.

The Minister must cause a copy of each agreement under subsection (1) and a statement of each variation under subsection (2) as published under subsection (4) to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 6 sitting days of the House next following the making of the agreement or variation.

The Minister must cause a copy of each agreement under subsection (1) and a statement of each variation under subsection (2) as published under subsection (4) to be sent to the Government Printer as soon as practicable after the making of the agreement or variation.

An agreement or variation referred to in subsection (1) or (2) may be revoked wholly or in part by resolution of either House of the Parliament passed within 6 sitting days of the House after a copy of the agreement or the statement of the variation is laid before that House.

If an agreement or variation referred to in subsection (1) or (2) is revoked wholly or in part under subsection (7)—

a provision of the Extension Agreement that had been cancelled or revoked by the agreement or variation, or by the part of the agreement or variation that is revoked, is revived as from the beginning of the day on which the agreement or variation, or part, was revoked; and

a provision of the Extension Agreement that had been varied (otherwise than by cancellation or revocation) by the agreement or variation, or by the part of the agreement or variation that is revoked, takes effect without that variation as from the beginning of the day on which the agreement or variation, or part, was revoked as if the variation had not been made.

The Minister must cause to be published in the Government Gazette a notice of the revocation of an agreement or variation, or part of an agreement or variation.

For the avoidance of doubt—

an agreement may be entered into, and is deemed always to have been authorised to be entered into, under subsection (1) in relation to the Link Upgrade Project; and

a variation may be made, and is deemed always to have been authorised to be made, under subsection (2) in relation to the Link Upgrade Project.

In this section, vary includes amend, add to, substitute, cancel or revoke.