{"id":"queen-victoria-womens-centre-act-1994","name":"Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994","slug":"queen-victoria-women-s-centre-act-1994","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"vic","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":176510,"registerId":"vic-queen-victoria-womens-centre-act-1994-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994","content":"Version No. 014\n\n**Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994**\n\n**No. 103 of 1994**\n\nVersion incorporating amendments as at  \n22 June 2011\n\n**table of provisions**\n\n*Section Page*\n\nPart 1—Preliminary 1\n\n1 Purposes 1\n\n2 Commencement 1\n\n3 Definitions 2\n\nPart 2—Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust 3\n\n4 Establishment of Trust 3\n\n5 Functions 3\n\n6 Powers 4\n\n7 Members of the Trust 5\n\n8 Terms and conditions of appointment 5\n\n9 Chairperson 6\n\n10 Vacancies, resignations, removal from office 6\n\n11 Temporary vacancies 6\n\n12 Trust may act despite vacancy etc. 7\n\n13 Pecuniary interest of members 7\n\n14 Meetings 8\n\nPart 3—Land 9\n\n15 Vesting of Crown land in Trust 9\n\nPart 4—Financial 10\n\n16 Accounts 10\n\n17 Borrowing, investment and other financial powers 10\n\n18 Business plan 10\n\n19 Trust to act in accordance with business plan 10\n\n20 Financial Management Act 11\n\n21 Appointment of administrator 11\n\n22 Winding up 11\n\n23 Reversion of land to the Crown 12\n\nPart 5—Miscellaneous 13\n\n24 Registrar of Titles to make necessary amendments to records 13\n\n25 Regulations 13\n\n26 *Repealed* 13\n\n__________________\n\nSCHEDULE 1 14\n\nENDNOTES 15\n\n1. General Information 15\n\n2. Table of Amendments 16\n\n3. Explanatory Details 18\n\n**Version No.** **014**\n\n**Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994**\n\n**No. 103 of 1994**\n\nVersion incorporating amendments as at  \n22 June 2011\n\n**The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:**\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n\t1 Purposes\n\nThe purposes of this Act are—\n\n(a) to establish the Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust;\n\n(b) to provide for the management, operation and use of the Queen Victoria Women's Centre;\n\n(c) to provide for the ownership of the Queen Victoria Women's Centre land.\n\n\t2 Commencement\n\n(1) Section 1 and this section come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.\n\n(2) Subject to subsection (3), the remaining provisions of this Act come into operation on a day or days to be proclaimed.\n\n(3) If a provision referred to in subsection (2) does not come into operation within the period of 12 months beginning on, and including, the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it comes into operation on the first day after the end of that period.\n\n\t3 Definitions\n\ns. 3\n\nIn this Act—\n\n***Centre*** means the facility provided by the Trust on the Queen Victoria Women's Centre land;\n\n***member*** means a member of the Trust and includes an acting member;\n\n***Queen Victoria Women's Centre land*** means the land shown hatched on the plan set out in Schedule 1;\n\n***Trust*** means the Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust established by this Act.\n\n__________________\n\nPart 2—Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust\n\n\t4 Establishment of Trust\n\ns. 4\n\n(1) There is established a trust to be known as the Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust.\n\n(2) The Trust—\n\n(a) is a body corporate with perpetual succession;\n\n(b) has a common seal;\n\n(c) may sue and be sued in its corporate name;\n\n(d) subject to this Act, may acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property;\n\n(e) may do and suffer all acts and things that a body corporate may by law do and suffer.\n\n(3) The common seal of the Trust must be kept as directed by the Trust and must only be used as authorised by the Trust.\n\n(4) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the common seal of the Trust on a document and, until the contrary is proved, must presume that it was duly affixed.\n\n\t5 Functions\n\nThe functions of the Trust are—\n\n(a) to manage the Queen Victoria Women's Centre land and to use it for the purposes of a facility to be known as the Queen Victoria Women's Centre;\n\n(b) to provide for the management, operation, use and promotion of the Centre;\n\n(c) to provide for the efficient financial management of the Queen Victoria Women's Centre land and the Centre;\n\n(d) to seek funding for the Centre;\n\n(e) to provide on the Queen Victoria Women's Centre land services and facilities for women including health information services, rest and meeting rooms and other services and facilities;\n\n(f) to provide information in relation to the services and facilities provided at the Centre;\n\n(g) any other functions that are conferred on the Trust by this Act.\n\n\t6 Powers\n\ns. 6\n\n(1) The Trust has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of its functions.\n\n(2) For the purpose of performing its functions, the Trust, in addition to other powers conferred on it by this Act—\n\n(a) may, subject to this Act, carry out works on the Queen Victoria Women's Centre land;\n\n(b) may carry on advertising and promotional activities;\n\n(c) may employ or engage staff or consultants;\n\n(d) may provide advisory services;\n\n(e) may enter into contracts, agreements or arrangements with any person or body for the purposes of its functions;\n\n(f) subject to section 15, may enter into leases, licences or permits for the use of any part of the Queen Victoria Women's Centre land;\n\n(g) may charge fees for use of the Centre or any of its services or for entry to any part of the Queen Victoria Women's Centre land;\n\n(h) may accept gifts, grants, bequests and devises.\n\n\t7 Members of the Trust\n\ns. 7\n\nThe Trust consists of 12 members appointed by the Governor in Council on the recommendation of the Minister, of whom not more than 4 shall be persons selected from a panel of 8 names submitted to the Minister by—\n\n(a) Queen Vic. Women's Centre Inc.; or\n\n(b) if that body ceases to exist, a body that, in the opinion of the Minister, is the successor of Queen Vic. Women's Centre Inc. or, if, in the opinion of the Minister there is no such successor, a body that, in the opinion of the Minister, is a body whose main purpose is to benefit the women of Victoria.\n\n\t8 Terms and conditions of appointment\n\n(1) A member of the Trust is appointed for the term, not exceeding 4 years, specified in the instrument of appointment, but is eligible for re-appointment.\n\n(2) A member of the Trust is entitled to be paid the remuneration or travelling or other allowances fixed from time to time by the Governor in Council.\n\nS. 8(3) amended by No. 46/1998  \ns. 7(Sch. 1), substituted by Nos 108/2004 s. 117(1) (Sch. 3 item 170), 80/2006 s. 26(Sch. item 89).\n\n(3) The **Public Administration Act 2004** (other than Part 3 of that Act) applies to a member of the Trust in respect of the office of member.\n\n(4) A member is appointed subject to any other terms and conditions that are specified in the instrument of appointment.\n\n\t9 Chairperson\n\ns. 9\n\n(1) The Minister must appoint one of the members as chairperson of the Trust.\n\n(2) The chairperson may resign that office in writing delivered to the Minister.\n\n\t10 Vacancies, resignations, removal from office\n\n(1) The office of a member becomes vacant if the member—\n\n(a) becomes bankrupt; or\n\n(b) is convicted of an indictable offence or of an offence which, if committed in Victoria, would be an indictable offence; or\n\n(c) is absent from 3 consecutive meetings of the Trust without the prior leave of the Trust.\n\n(2) A member may resign by notice in writing delivered to the Minister.\n\n(3) The Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister, may remove a member, or all members, from office.\n\n\t11 Temporary vacancies\n\n(1) If the office of a member of the Trust is vacant or a member of the Trust is unable, whether because of illness or otherwise, to perform the duties of office of member, the Governor in Council may appoint a person to act as a member while the office is vacant or during that period of inability.\n\n(2) A person appointed to act as a member of the Trust has, while so acting, the rights, powers and duties of the member for whom the person is acting.\n\n(3) A person appointed to act as a member is entitled to receive the remuneration or travelling or other allowances fixed for that member by the Governor in Council.\n\n\t12 Trust may act despite vacancy etc.\n\ns. 12\n\nAn act or decision of the Trust is not invalid only because of—\n\n(a) a defect or irregularity in or in connection with the appointment of a member; or\n\n(b) a vacancy in the office of member; or\n\n(c) in the case of an acting member, the occasion for the member acting has not arisen or has ceased.\n\n\t13 Pecuniary interest of members\n\n(1) A member who has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter being considered or about to be considered by the Trust must, as soon as practicable after the relevant facts have come to the knowledge of the member, declare the nature of the interest at a meeting of the Trust.\n\n(2) A person presiding at a meeting at which a declaration is made must cause a record of the declaration to be made in the minutes of the meeting.\n\n(3) After a declaration is made by a member—\n\n(a) unless the Trust otherwise directs, the member must not be present during any deliberation with respect to that matter; and\n\n(b) the member is not entitled to vote on the matter; and\n\n(c) if the member does vote on the matter, the vote must be disallowed.\n\n\t14 Meetings\n\ns. 14\n\n(1) The chairperson of the Trust, or in the absence of the chairperson, a member appointed by the members present, must preside at a meeting of the Trust.\n\n(2) A question must not be determined at a meeting of the Trust unless a quorum consisting of a majority of its current membership is present.\n\n(3) A question arising at a meeting of the Trust shall be determined by a majority of the members present and voting on that question and, in the event of an equality of votes, the person presiding at the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.\n\n(4) The Trust must meet at the times and places determined by it or, in the absence of a determination by the Trust, by the chairperson of the Trust.\n\n__________________\n\nPart 3—Land\n\n\t15 Vesting of Crown land in Trust\n\ns. 15\n\n(1) The Queen Victoria Women's Centre land vests in fee simple in the Trust, subject to the conditions, covenants, encumbrances, caveats, limitations, exceptions, reservations and restrictions to which the land was subject immediately before its vesting under this subsection.\n\n(2) The Trust must not, without the consent in writing of the Minister—\n\n(a) sell, mortgage or otherwise dispose of the Queen Victoria Women's Centre land or any part of it, except for a lease not exceeding 5 years; or\n\n(b) grant a lease of the land or any part of it for a term exceeding 5 years; or\n\n(c) use, or permit to be used, the land or any part of it otherwise than for the purposes of the Trust.\n\n__________________\n\nPart 4—Financial\n\nS. 16  \namended by No. 11/2001 s. 3(Sch. item 61).\n\n\t16 Accounts\n\ns. 16\n\nThe Trust may open and maintain one or more accounts in the name of the Trust with any authorised deposit-taking institution or institutions within the meaning of the Banking Act 1959 of the Commonwealth.\n\n\t17 Borrowing, investment and other financial powers\n\nThe Trust has the powers conferred on it by the **Borrowing and Investment Powers Act 1987**.\n\n\t18 Business plan\n\n(1) The Trust must prepare a business plan each year.\n\n(2) The Trust must give a copy of the proposed plan to the Minister on or before such date in each year as is determined by the Minister.\n\n(3) The proposed business plan must be in or to the effect of a form approved by the Minister and must include—\n\n(a) a statement of corporate intent, being information about the objectives, main undertakings, activities, accounting policies and performance measures of the Trust;\n\n(b) financial statements containing information requested by the Minister;\n\n(c) any other matters that the Minister directs.\n\n\t19 Trust to act in accordance with business plan\n\nThe Trust must act only in accordance with its business plan, as existing from time to time, unless it has first informed the Minister in writing of its intention to do otherwise.\n\n\t20 Financial Management Act\n\ns. 20\n\nThe Trust is a public statutory authority within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition of ***public body*** in section 3 of the **Financial Management Act 1994**.\n\n\t21 Appointment of administrator\n\n(1) If it appears to the Minister that the Trust is unlikely to be able to pay its debts as they fall due, the Minister may by instrument appoint an administrator to carry out the functions of the Trust.\n\n(2) An administrator is appointed on the terms and conditions determined by the Minister.\n\n(3) An administrator—\n\n(a) assumes full control of and responsibility for the operations of the Trust; and\n\n(b) must conduct the operations of the Trust in accordance with this Act.\n\n\t22 Winding up\n\n(1) The Trust may be wound up if the Minister determines that the Trust is unable to pay its debts as they fall due.\n\nS. 22(2) substituted by No. 44/2001 s. 3(Sch. item 96).\n\n(2) If the Minister makes a determination under subsection (1), he or she must appoint a liquidator and must fix the liquidator's remuneration.\n\nS. 22(3) inserted by No. 44/2001 s. 3(Sch. item 96).\n\n(3) The winding up of the Trust under this section is declared to be an applied Corporations legislation matter for the purposes of Part 3 of the **Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001** in relation to the provisions of Part 5.6 (Winding up generally) of the Corporations Act, subject to the following modifications—\n\n(a) those provisions apply as if the Trust were a company;\n\n(b) a reference in those provisions to ASIC is to be read as a reference to the Minister;\n\n(c) a reference in those provisions to the Gazette is to be read as a reference to the Government Gazette;\n\n(d) a reference in those provisions to the directors of a company is to be read as a reference to the members of the Trust;\n\n(e) a reference in those provisions to an order of the Court that a company be wound up is to be read as a reference to the determination of the Minister under subsection (1);\n\n(f) the modifications specified in section 23;\n\n(g) any other modifications (within the meaning of Part 3 of the **Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001**) that are prescribed by the regulations.\n\n**Note**\n\nPart 3 of the **Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001** provides for the application of provisions of the Corporations Act and Part 3 of the ASIC Act as laws of the State in respect of any matter declared by a law of the State (whether with or without modification) to be an applied Corporations legislation matter for the purposes of that Part in relation to those Commonwealth provisions.\n\n\t23 Reversion of land to the Crown\n\ns. 23\n\nOn the winding up of the Trust, the Queen Victoria Women's Centre land is divested from the Trust and vests in the Crown.\n\n__________________\n\nPart 5—Miscellaneous\n\n\t24 Registrar of Titles to make necessary amendments to records\n\ns. 24\n\nS. 24(1) repealed by No. 85/1998 s. 24(Sch. item 48).\n\n* * * * *\n\n(2) The Registrar of Titles must make any amendments to the Register under the **Transfer of Land Act 1958** that are necessary because of the operation of any provision of this Act.\n\n\t25 Regulations\n\nThe Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to any matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.\n\nS. 26 repealed by No. 29/2011 s. 3(Sch. 1 item 77).\n\n* * * * *\n\n__________________\n\nSCHEDULE 1\n\nSch. 1\n\n![]()\n\n\n\nENDNOTES\n\n1. General Information\n\n\nEndnotes\n\n*Minister's second reading speech—*\n\n*Legislative Assembly: 10 November 1994*\n\n*Legislative Council: 30 November 1994*\n\nThe long title for the Bill for this Act was \"A Bill to establish the Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust to own and manage a women's centre and for other purposes.\".\n\nThe **Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994** was assented to on 13 December 1994 and came into operation as follows:\n\nSections 1 and 2 on 13 December 1994: section 2(1); rest of Act on 15 June 1995: Government Gazette 15 June 1995 page 1416.\n\n1. Table of Amendments\n\n\nEndnotes\n\nThis Version incorporates amendments made to the **Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994** by Acts and subordinate instruments.\n\n–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––\n\n**Public Sector Reform (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1998, No. 46/1998**\n\n| Assent Date: | 26.5.98 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commencement Date: | S. 7(Sch. 1) on 1.7.98: s. 2(2) |\n| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the **Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994** |\n\n\n**Transfer of Land (Single Register) Act 1998, No. 85/1998**\n\n| Assent Date: | 17.11.98 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commencement Date: | S. 24(Sch. item 48) on 1.1.99: s. 2(3) |\n| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the **Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994** |\n\n\n**Statute Law Amendment (Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions) Act 2001, No. 11/2001**\n\n| Assent Date: | 8.5.01 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commencement Date: | S. 3(Sch. item 61) on 1.6.01: s. 2(2) |\n| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the **Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994** |\n\n\n**Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001, No. 44/2001**\n\n| Assent Date: | 27.6.01 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commencement Date: | S. 3(Sch. item 96) on 15.7.01: s. 2 |\n| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the **Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994** |\n\n\n**Public Administration Act 2004, No. 108/2004**\n\n| Assent Date: | 21.12.04 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commencement Date: | S. 117(1)(Sch. 3 item 170) on 5.4.05: Government Gazette 31.3.05 p. 602 |\n| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the **Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994** |\n\n\n**Public Sector Acts (Further Workplace Protection and Other Matters) Act 2006, No. 80/2006**\n\n| Assent Date: | 10.10.06 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commencement Date: | S. 26(Sch. item 89) on 11.10.06: s. 2(1) |\n| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the **Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994** |\n\n\n**Statute Law Revision Act 2011, No. 29/2011**\n\n| Assent Date: | 21.6.11 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commencement Date: | S. 3(Sch. 1 item 77) on 22.6.11: s. 2(1) |\n| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the **Queen Victoria Women's Centre Act 1994** |\n\n\nEndnotes\n\n–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––\n\n1. Explanatory Details\n\n\nEndnotes\n\nNo entries at date of publication.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"Amendments listed in the endnotes have adjusted governance and administrative scope while leaving the Trust's core purposes intact. Notable changes include applying the Public Administration Act to members (s.8(3) amendment), amendments to accounts and authorised deposit‑taking references (s.16 amendment), repeal of a Registrar provision (s.24(1) repealed), and modified winding‑up procedures tying the Trust to Corporations Act provisions with state‑specific substitutions (s.22(2)–(3)). These alter oversight, accountability and insolvency procedures without altering the Act's primary objects (establishing the Trust and managing the Centre)."},"complexity_factors":["Cross‑references to multiple external statutes increase legal interpretation burden (Financial Management Act 1994 — s.20; Borrowing and Investment Powers Act 1987 — s.17; Corporations provisions via Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001 — s.22(3)).","Ministerial and Governor in Council discretions: appointment/removal of members, approval for land deals, appointment of administrators and liquidators (s.7, s.10(3), s.15(2), s.21, s.22).","Detailed governance rules for a 12‑member board with specified nomination channel and conflict‑of‑interest procedures add administrative complexity (composition and nominations — s.7; pecuniary interests — s.13).","Financial compliance obligations: annual business plan with ministerial form and timing, obligation to act only in accordance with the plan unless notifying the Minister (s.18, s.19).","Restrictions on land dealings: fee simple vests in the Trust but sale/mortgage/long leases constrained by ministerial consent and five‑year lease cap without consent (s.15).","Winding‑up ties Trust procedures to applied Corporations Act provisions with tailored modifications and substitution of state bodies for Commonwealth agencies (s.22(3) and related modifications), which complicates insolvency procedures.","Regulations power and schedule mapping to physical land create delegated‑law and cadastral dependencies (s.25; Schedule 1).","Administrative amendments over time (see endnotes) mean current operation depends on reading original Act alongside later amendments."],"plain_english_summary":"Creates the Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust to own, manage and operate the Queen Victoria Women's Centre and its land, and sets governance, financial and land‑use rules for leases, fees, staff and promotion. It affects appointed Trust members, the Minister and Governor in Council, users and tenants; the Act requires annual business plans, financial accountability, limits on land disposal and gives the Minister powers to appoint administrators or wind up the Trust—matters that determine who decides, who pays, and how the Centre may be used."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains focused on its original purpose of establishing the Trust to own and manage the Queen Victoria Women's Centre. Amendments have been minor and technical - updating references to modern financial legislation (e.g., authorised deposit-taking institutions, Corporations Act application) and public sector employment laws (Public Administration Act 2004). No expansion of substantive powers or functions has occurred."},"complexity_factors":["Short statute (26 sections, approximately 8 pages of substantive content)","Only 4 defined terms in the interpretation section (Centre, member, Queen Victoria Women's Centre land, Trust)","Minimal cross-referencing - primarily references to standard financial statutes (Borrowing and Investment Powers Act 1987, Financial Management Act 1994, Corporations legislation)","Straightforward governance structure with standard corporate powers","Simple conditional logic (e.g., ministerial consent required for land dispositions over 5 years)","No nested exceptions or highly technical procedural requirements","Single Schedule containing only a map/diagram (not reproduced in text)"],"plain_english_summary":"This legislation creates a special trust called the **Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust** to own and run a women's centre in Victoria.\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Establishes a legal entity**: The Trust is a body corporate (a legal 'person' that can own property, sign contracts, and sue or be sued) with 12 appointed members.\n- **Owns specific land**: It transfers Crown land (government-owned land) to the Trust in 'fee simple' (full ownership), though with restrictions on selling or leasing it long-term without ministerial approval.\n- **Runs a women's centre**: The Trust must manage the Queen Victoria Women's Centre, providing services like health information, meeting rooms, and rest facilities for women.\n- **Financial oversight**: The Trust must prepare annual business plans, follow financial management laws, and can be taken over by an administrator or wound up if it can't pay its debts.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Women in Victoria who use the Centre's services\n- The 12 board members appointed by the Governor in Council (on the Minister's recommendation)\n- The Victorian Government, which retains ultimate control over the land and can wind up the Trust if necessary\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThis Act ensures a dedicated facility for women's services has secure land tenure and independent management, while keeping the government as a backstop to prevent financial mismanagement or misuse of the property. If the Trust ever collapses, the land automatically returns to the Crown (government ownership)."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the available information, the Act appears to have remained consistent with its original intent — establishing and governing the Queen Victoria Women's Centre. 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It sets governance and operational arrangements for the Centre.\n\nIt affects women’s organisations and community groups that use its space, the trustees or board who run it, visitors, and the Victorian Government which retains oversight — ensuring the building cannot be repurposed or sold away from its stated purpose."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/queen-victoria-women-s-centre-act-1994","history":"/api/acts/queen-victoria-women-s-centre-act-1994/history","analysis":"/api/acts/queen-victoria-women-s-centre-act-1994/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/queen-victoria-women-s-centre-act-1994/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/queen-victoria-women-s-centre-act-1994/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/queen-victoria-women-s-centre-act-1994/documents"}}