1River Murray Waters (Dartmouth Reservoir) Act 1971

South Australia River Murray Waters (Dartmouth Reservoir) Act 1971 An Act to ratify and approve an agreement relating to financial assistance for the construction of the Dartmouth Reservoir, and for other purposes.

Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Act to bind the Crown 4 Ratification of agreement Schedule Legislative history

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: 1—Short title This Act may be cited as the River Murray Waters (Dartmouth Reservoir) Act 1971. 2—Commencement This Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation which may be made when the Governor is satisfied that the Parliament of the Commonwealth has passed an Act ratifying the agreement, a copy of which is set out in the Schedule to this Act. 3—Act to bind the Crown This Act binds the Crown. 4—Ratification of agreement The agreement, a copy of which is set out in the Schedule to this Act, is hereby ratified and approved and shall take effect upon the coming into operation of this Act. Schedule AN AGREEMENT made this twenty-sixth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and seventy between THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (in this Agreement called "the Commonwealth") of the first part, THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES, THE STATE OF VICTORIA and THE STATE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA (in this Agreement referred to as "the States") of the second, third and fourth parts, respectively. WHEREAS by an Agreement made on the ninth day of September One thousand nine hundred and fourteen between the Commonwealth and the States and referred to in the River Murray Waters Act 1915 of the Commonwealth and the collateral legislation of the States, as amended by Amending Agreements respectively dated the tenth day of August One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the twenty-third day of July One thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, the twenty-sixth day of November One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, the second day of November One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, the eleventh day of September One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight and the eighth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three and by a further Amending Agreement made the twenty-sixth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and seventy, (which Agreement as so amended is in this agreement called "the River Murray Waters Agreement") it has been agreed that the works to be provided under the River Murray Waters Agreement, as set out in clause 20 of that Agreement, will include the provision of a water storage (in this Agreement called "the Dartmouth Reservoir") on the Mitta Mitta River upstream of Dartmouth with an active capacity of approximately three million acre-feet of water at an estimated cost of Fifty-seven million dollars: AND WHEREAS, pursuant to clause 32 of the River Murray Waters Agreement, the cost of carrying out the works mentioned in clause 20 of that Agreement is to be borne by the Commonwealth and the States in equal shares: AND WHEREAS the States have sought financial assistance from the Commonwealth towards meeting their shares of the cost of the construction of the Dartmouth Reservoir: AND WHEREAS the Government of the Commonwealth has agreed to submit to its Parliament legislation providing under section 96 of the Constitution for a grant of financial assistance to the States in the manner, to the extent, and on the terms and conditions provided by this Agreement: AND WHEREAS the Commonwealth and the States have agreed that if a revised estimated cost of the Dartmouth Reservoir rises above Sixty-two million seven hundred thousand dollars arrangements under this Agreement will be reviewed. NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:—