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Version No. 001
Melbourne (Snowden Gardens) Land Act
1975
Act No. 8685/1975
Version incorporating amendments as at 9 August 2000
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
Short title and commencement 2
Revocation of Orders in Council 2
Land shown cross-hatched in Schedule shall cease to form part
of a public road 3
Land shown hatched and cross-hatched may be reserved as a
site for Victorian Arts Centre 3
Land may be granted to Victorian Arts Centre Building
Committee 3
Governor in Council may enter into agreements 4
This Act not affected by Melbourne (St. Kilda-road
Underpass) Lands Act 1969 5
No compensation payable 5
Repealed 5
SCHEDULE—Land in the City of Melbourne 6
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ENDNOTES 7
General Information 7
Table of Amendments 8
Explanatory Details 9
Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents1
Version No. 001
Melbourne (Snowden Gardens) Land Act
1975
Act No. 8685/1975
Version incorporating amendments as at 9 August 2000
An Act relating to Certain Lands in the Cities of Melbourne and
South Melbourne.
Preamble
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:
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BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria
in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of
the same as follows (that is to say):
Short title and commencement
(1) This Act shall be cited as the Melbourne
(Snowden Gardens) Land Act 1975.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on the day on
which it receives the Royal Assent.
Revocation of Orders in Council
(1) 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.
(2) The Order in Council dated the 13th November,
1917 vesting the said lands in the Corporation of
the City of Melbourne is hereby revoked.
(3) 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. 1
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3. Land shown cross-hatched in Schedule shall cease to
form part of a public road
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.
4. Land shown hatched and cross-hatched may be
reserved as a site for Victorian Arts Centre
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.
5. Land may be granted to Victorian Arts Centre
Building Committee
(1) 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.
(2) 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. 3
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6. Governor in Council may enter into agreements
(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.
(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.
(3) 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. 6
S. 6(1)
amended by
No. 9179
s. 2(1).
S. 6(2)
amended by
No. 9179
s. 2(2).
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7. This Act not affected by Melbourne (St. Kilda-road
Underpass) Lands Act 1969
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.
8. No compensation payable
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. 7
S. 9
repealed by
No. 9863 s. 2.
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SCHEDULE
LAND IN THE CITY OF MELBOURNE
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ENDNOTES
General Information
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).
Endnotes
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2. Table of Amendments
This Version incorporates amendments made to the Melbourne (Snowden
Gardens) Land Act 1975 by Acts and subordinate instruments.
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Melbourne (Snowden Gardens) Land Act 1978, No. 9179/1978
Assent Date: 8.11.78
Commencement Date: 8.11.78: s. 1(3)
Current State: All of Act in operation
Statute Law Revision (Repeals) Act 1982, No. 9863/1982
Assent Date: 5.1.83
Commencement Date: 5.1.83: s. 1(2)
Current State: All of Act in operation
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3. Explanatory Details
No entries at date of publication.
Endnotes