Long title
An Act relating to Certain Lands in the Cities of Melbourne and South Melbourne.
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An Act relating to Certain Lands in the Cities of Melbourne and South Melbourne.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the 3rd February, 1914 certain Crown lands in the City of Melbourne containing 5388 square metres more or less and known as Snowden Gardens were permanently reserved as a site for ornamental purposes and were vested in the Corporation of the City of Melbourne by Order in Council dated the 13th November, 1917 pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Prince's Bridge Approach Act 1900:
AND WHEREAS the lands delineated and shown cross-hatched on the plan in the Schedule are part of City-road part of Riverside-avenue and part of St. Kilda-road in the City of Melbourne:
AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the said Orders in Council should be revoked and that the said part of City-road the said part of Riverside-avenue and the said part of St. Kilda-road should be closed in order that the lands delineated and shown hatched and cross-hatched on the plan in the Schedule may be reserved as a site for the Victorian Arts Centre:
AND WHEREAS it is necessary to confer certain powers on the Victorian Arts Centre Building Committee:
s. 1
This Act shall be cited as the Melbourne (Snowden Gardens) Land Act 1975.
This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
The Order in Council dated the 3rd February, 1914 permanently reserving certain lands in the City of Melbourne containing 5388 square metres as a site for ornamental purposes is hereby revoked.
The Order in Council dated the 13th November, 1917 vesting the said lands in the Corporation of the City of Melbourne is hereby revoked.
Any other Order in Council and any proclamation so far as it reserves or affects or purports to reserve or affect the said land shall also be revoked and notwithstanding anything in any Act such land 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.
s. 3
The lands delineated and shown cross-hatched on the plan in the Schedule shall cease to form part of a public road and all rights easements and privileges existing for the public or claimed by any person in or in connexion with the land as a public road shall cease and determine and the land 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.
The land delineated and shown hatched and cross-hatched on the plan in the Schedule may pursuant to the Land Act 1958 be permanently reserved as a site for the Victorian Arts Centre.
The Governor in Council may notwithstanding anything in the Land Act 1958 grant to the Victorian Arts Centre Building Committee the land shown hatched and cross-hatched on the plan in the Schedule.
A grant under sub-section (1) shall be subject to the condition that all landscape and garden areas established on the land shall be laid out to the satisfaction of the council of the City of Melbourne and thereafter maintained by the corporation of the City of Melbourne at the expense of the grantee and to such other conditions reservations and exceptions as the Governor in Council thinks fit.
s. 6
S. 6(1) amended by No. 9179 s. 2(1).
Notwithstanding anything in any Act the Governor in Council may upon such terms and conditions as the Governor in Council thinks fit and upon such conditions as the council of the municipal district in which the land is situated deems necessary grant to the Victorian Arts Centre Building Committee any authority necessary or expedient to enable the Committee to occupy all or any of the parts of the roads known as Riverside-avenue, City-road, South-gate, and Sturt-street that abut lands reserved under this Act or under the Melbourne South Land Act 1946 for any portion of the Victorian Arts Centre or for constructing and maintaining in, on, over, or under any of those roads any bridges, ramps, stairs, or pedestrian ways, service tunnels, pipes and cables for any of the purposes of the Centre and areas to be used for ornamental purposes or for the recreation, convenience, refreshment, or amusement of the people.
S. 6(2) amended by No. 9179 s. 2(2).
The Victorian Arts Centre Building Committee may enter into agreements with the councils of the Cities of Melbourne and South Melbourne with respect to the maintenance and management of pedestrian ways and the areas referred to in sub-section (1) to be used for ornamental purposes or for the recreation, convenience, refreshment, or amusement of the people.
Each such council may do or suffer anything necessary or expedient for carrying any such agreement into effect and where any such agreement is entered into between the Victorian Arts Centre Building Committee and both councils each council may do anything necessary or expedient for carrying the agreement into effect in the municipal district of the other council.
s. 7
The operation of this Act shall not be affected by the Melbourne (St. Kilda-road Underpass) Lands Act 1969 or anything done under that Act.
No compensation shall be payable by the Crown in respect of any act matter or thing done under or arising out of this Act.
S. 9
repealed by No. 9863 s. 2.
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The Melbourne (Snowden Gardens) Land Act 1975 was assented to on 2 May 1975 and came into operation on 2 May 1975: section 1(2).
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