1North Melbourne Municipal Buildings Site Act 1963

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documentsi Version No. 001 North Melbourne Municipal Buildings Site Act 1963 Act No. 7016/1963 Version as at 17 August 2001 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page

1. Short title 2
2. Power to City of Melbourne to lease land described in Schedule 2
3. Power to use remaining land for municipal purposes 3

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SCHEDULE 4 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 5

1. General Information 5
2. Table of Amendments 6
3. Explanatory Details 7

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents1 Version No. 001 North Melbourne Municipal Buildings Site Act 1963 Act No. 7016/1963 Version as at 17 August 2001 An Act relating to certain Land at North Melbourne. Preamble WHEREAS by a Crown grant dated the third day of October One thousand eight hundred and seventy certain land in the borough of Hotham (hereinafter referred to as "the granted land") was granted to the mayor councillors and burgesses of the said borough (who and whose successors are hereinafter referred to as the "grantees") subject to the condition among others that the granted land should at all times thereafter be used for a town hall borough offices and court house: AND WHEREAS by a lease dated the twenty- seventh day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighty-two the grantees leased certain rooms or offices on part of the granted land to Her Majesty the Queen for post and telegraph offices a court house and other offices and conveniences: AND WHEREAS Act number eight hundred and thirty-eight validated the said lease and empowered the grantees to lease the part of the granted land described in the Schedule to that Act: AND WHEREAS the said lease is now held by the Commonwealth of Australia: AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the power conferred by the said Act to lease the land described in the Schedule thereto should be extended to another part of the granted land which is not now required for the purposes specified in

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary DocumentsAct No. 7016/1963 North Melbourne Municipal Buildings Site Act 1963 2 the said Crown grant or any other municipal purposes: AND WHEREAS the said other portion of the granted land together with the land described in the Schedule to the said Act is the land described in the Schedule to this Act: AND WHEREAS the remaining portion of the granted land is now being used for a baby health centre elderly citizens club public hall municipal library and municipal offices and it is expedient that the use thereof for those purposes or other municipal purposes should be sanctioned: AND WHEREAS the said borough was duly constituted a town under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1874 and later was united with the City of Melbourne pursuant to the Local Government Amendment Act 1889 and the corporation of the City of Melbourne became entitled to the grant of land pursuant to section nine of the last-mentioned Act: 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):