Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture Act 1982

On and from a day to be fixed by proclamation of the Governor in Council published in the Government Gazette (the appointed day)—

the control and administration of the Agricultural Colleges shall be transferred to and vested in the Council;

the lands described in Parts I and II of the Second Schedule to the Agricultural Colleges Act 1958 (being the lands upon which the Agricultural Colleges known as Longerenong Agricultural College and Dookie Agricultural College are respectively established) shall be deemed to be permanently reserved under the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 for the purpose of agricultural colleges and shall be under the control of the Council;

all personal property vested in the Minister of Agriculture and used for or in connexion with the Agricultural Colleges shall be transferred to and vest in the Council;

the Council shall assume possession of all documents and records of the Agricultural Colleges and of the Division of Agricultural Education of the Department of Agriculture relating to degrees diplomas certificates and other awards conferred by the Agricultural Colleges;

any student of the Agricultural Colleges who before the appointed day had been awarded a scholarship under section 7(2) of the Agricultural Colleges Act 1958 is entitled to the benefit of the scholarship for the remainder of the term for which it was awarded;

the Agricultural Colleges Act 1958 shall be repealed;

the Order in Council specified in Schedule Two shall be revoked; and

any reference to the Agricultural Colleges, the State Agricultural Colleges or the Division of Agricultural Education of the Department of Agriculture in any other Act or any proclamation Order in Council regulation by-law or other instrument or document shall, if not inconsistent with the context or subject-matter, be deemed and taken to refer to the College.

The appointed day shall be a day after the day upon which the Council is constituted as a body corporate to manage and control the College by Order in Council made as provided for in section 6.

Except as in this Act expressly or by necessary implication provided—

all persons things and circumstances appointed or created by or under the Agricultural Colleges Act 1958 or existing or continuing under that Act immediately before the appointed day shall under and subject to this Act continue to have the same status operation and effect as they respectively would have had if that Act had not been repealed;

in particular and without affecting the generality of paragraph (a), that repeal shall not disturb the continuity of status operation or effect of any regulation order grant lease renewal demise purchase lease condition obligation liability or right made effected issued granted fixed accrued incurred or acquired or existing or continuing by or under the Agricultural Colleges Act 1958 before the appointed day.

Notwithstanding the enactment of this Act, the Dookie Agricultural College Land Act 1972 shall continue to have the same operation and effect as if this Act had not been enacted.