Version No. 002
Royal Agricultural Show-grounds Act 1931
No. 3965 of 1931
Version incorporating amendments as at 14 March 2008
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
1 Short title 3
1A Definition 4
2 Provision for use of land in Schedules 1 and 2 for recreation etc. 4
3 Validation of transfers of lands in Schedules 3 and 4 5
4 Application of planning schemes to Show-ground land 6
5 Change of name 6
6 Registrar of Titles to make necessary amendments 6
Version No. 002
Royal Agricultural Show-grounds Act 1931
No. 3965 of 1931
Version incorporating amendments as at 14 March 2008
An Act to provide for the Use of certain Lands in the Parish of
Doutta Galla forming Portion of the Royal Agricultural Show
Grounds for Purposes of Recreation Entertainment or
Amusement in addition to the Purposes provided for in certain
Orders in Council and Crown Grants relating to the said Lands,
the Application of the Net Profits of such Use of the said Lands,
and the Validation of the Transfers of certain Lands previously
forming Portions of the said Royal Agricultural Show Grounds.
Preamble
WHEREAS by Order in Council of the fifteenth
day of May One thousand eight hundred and
eighty-two1 the land described in the First
Schedule to this Act was permanently reserved as a
site for the use of the National Agricultural Society
of Victoria for show yards and other purposes:
AND WHEREAS by a Crown grant bearing date
the twenty-seventh day of August One thousand
eight hundred and eighty-six and entered in the
register book of the Office of Titles volume 1902
folium 380325 the land described in the said First
Schedule was granted to Andrew Plummer James
Gibb and William John Lobb upon trust inter alia
that the said land and the buildings for the time
being thereon should be at all times thereafter
maintained and used as and for a site for the show
yards of the National Agricultural Society of
Victoria and offices and conveniences connected
therewith and for no other purpose whatsoever:
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Preamble
AND WHEREAS the Royal assent was on the
sixth day of May One thousand eight hundred and
ninety given to the change of the name of the said
society to The Royal Agricultural Society of
Victoria:
AND WHEREAS by Order in Council of the fifth
day of August One thousand nine hundred and
thirteen2 the land described in the Second Schedule
to this Act was permanently reserved as a site for
agricultural show purposes:
AND WHEREAS by a Crown grant bearing date
the twenty-second day of June One thousand nine
hundred and fourteen and entered in the register
book of the Office of Titles volume 3807 folium
761226 the land described in the said Second
Schedule was granted to James Gibb William John
Lobb Alexander McCracken and Samuel Sherwen
Cameron upon trust that the said land and the
buildings for the time being thereon should be at
all times thereafter maintained and used as and for
agricultural show purposes and offices and
conveniences connected therewith and for no other
purpose whatsoever:
AND WHEREAS by a transfer dated the twenty-
first day of May One thousand nine hundred and
six the land described in the Third Schedule to this
Act (being portion of the land described in the said
First Schedule) was transferred by the trustees for
the time being of the land described in the said
First Schedule to The Victorian Railways
Commissioners:
AND WHEREAS by a transfer dated the thirty-
first day of July One thousand nine hundred and
twenty-six the land described in the Fourth
Schedule to this Act (being portion of the land
described in the said Second Schedule) was
transferred by the trustees for the time being of the
land described in the Second Schedule to the
mayor aldermen councillors and citizens of the city
of Melbourne:
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AND WHEREAS prior to such transfers the lands
described in the said First and Second Schedules
were (together with certain other lands held in trust
for the said society) known as the Royal
Agricultural Show-grounds:
AND WHEREAS Samuel Sherwen Cameron
Charles Edward Merrett George Thomas Chirnside
and Arthur Ernest Tyndall Payne (hereinafter
called the said trustees) are the present trustees of
the remaining portions (which portions together
with certain other lands held in trust for the said
society are now known as the Royal Agricultural
Show-grounds) of the lands described in the said
First and Second Schedules:
AND WHEREAS The Royal Agricultural Society
of Victoria desires that the said trustees should be
empowered to use or permit to be used the
remaining portions of the lands described in the
said First and Second Schedules for purposes of
recreation entertainment or amusement as
hereinafter provided:
AND WHEREAS it is expedient so to empower
such trustees and to provide as hereinafter enacted
for the application of the net profits arising from
such use of the said remaining portions of the said
lands and to validate so far as necessary the
transfer as aforesaid of the lands described in the
said Third and Fourth Schedules:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King'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):
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Royal Agricultural
Show-grounds Act 1931.
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s. 1A
1A DefinitionS. 1A
inserted by
No. 72/1994
s. 3.
In this Act—
Royal Agricultural Society means the company
incorporated under the Corporations Law of
Victoria called R.A.S.V. Limited, A.C.N.
006 728 785 or, if that company changes its
name, that company under its new name.
2 Provision for use of land in Schedules 1 and 2 for
recreation etc.
(1) Notwithstanding anything in the hereinbefore
recited Orders in Council of the fifteenth day of
May One thousand eight hundred and eighty-two
and the fifth day of August One thousand nine
hundred and thirteen respectively or in the
hereinbefore recited Crown grants bearing date
the twenty-seventh day of August One thousand
eight hundred and eighty-six and the twenty-
second day of June One thousand nine hundred
and fourteen relating to the lands described in the
First and Second Schedules to this Act
respectively, the trustees of the lands described in
the said First and Second Schedules may in
addition to the purposes provided for in the said
Orders in Council and Crown grants use or permit
to be used such portions of the lands described in
the said First and Second Schedules as are not
described in the Third and Fourth Schedules to
this Act for purposes of recreation entertainment
or amusement:
Provided that the said trustees shall not use or
permit to be used such portions of the said lands—
*S. 2(1)
(Proviso)(a)
repealed by
No. 72/1994
s. 4(a)(i).
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(b) for any purpose of recreation entertainment
or amusement which is prohibited by the
Governor in Council by Order published in
the Government Gazette.
S. 2(1)
(Proviso)(b)
amended by
No. 72/1994
s. 4(a)(ii).
(2) The net profits received by the said trustees
arising from the use of the said lands as hereby
authorized shall be applied—
S. 2(2)
amended by
No. 72/1994
s. 4(b).
(a) in effecting improvements on the said lands
or on any lands in the vicinity thereof which
are held in fee simple in trust for the Royal
Agricultural Society; or
S. 2(2)(a)
amended by
No. 72/1994
s. 4(b).
(b) otherwise for the purposes of the Royal
Agricultural Society—
S. 2(2)(b)
amended by
No. 72/1994
s. 4(b).
in such manner as the governing body of the
Royal Agricultural Society directs.
3 Validation of transfers of lands in Schedules 3 and 4
The transfer dated the twenty-first day of May
One thousand nine hundred and six of the land
described in the Third Schedule to this Act to The
Victorian Railways Commissioners by the trustees
for the time being of the land described in the
First Schedule to this Act and the transfer dated
the thirty-first day of July One thousand nine
hundred and twenty-six of the land described in
the Fourth Schedule to this Act to the mayor
aldermen councillors and citizens of the city of
Melbourne by the trustees for the time being of
the land described in the Second Schedule to this
Act shall be deemed to be valid and effectual for
all purposes; and the trustees for the time being of
the land described in the said First Schedule and
of the land described in the said Second Schedule
shall respectively be deemed to have been
empowered so to transfer the lands described in
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the said Third Schedule and the said Fourth
Schedule.
4 Application of planning schemes to Show-ground
land
S. 4
inserted by
No. 72/1994
s. 5.
Section 46 of the Planning and Environment
Act 1987 does not apply to those lands described
in the First and Second Schedules to this Act that
are not described in the Third and Fourth
Schedules to this Act.
5 Change of nameS. 5
inserted by
No. 72/1994
s. 5. On and from the commencement of the Royal
Agricultural Show-grounds (Amendment) Act
1994, any reference to The Royal Agricultural
Society of Victoria or the National Agricultural
Society of Victoria in—
(a) the recited Order in Council of 15 May 1882;
and
(b) the recited Crown grant dated 27 August
1886 and any instrument relating to a trust in
that Crown grant—
is deemed to be a reference to the Royal
Agricultural Society.
6 Registrar of Titles to make necessary amendmentsS. 6
inserted by
No. 72/1994
s. 5. The Registrar of Titles must make any
amendments in the Register under the Transfer of
Land Act 1958 that are necessary because of the
operation of section 5.
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SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE Preamble,
section 2.
Sch. 1
amended by
No. 18/1989
s. 13(Sch. 2
item 74(a)).
Land permanently reserved as a Site for the Use of the National
Agricultural Society of Victoria for Show Yards and other
purposes by Order in Council dated 15 May 1882 (vide
"Government Gazette" of 19 May 1882, page 1127), and
described in folio of the Register, volume 1902, folium 380325.
Thirty acres, county of Bourke, parish of Doutta Galla,
municipal district of Essendon and Flemington, being parts of
allotments 29 and 30: commencing at the north angle of the site,
being a point bearing S. 44° 49' W. eight chains twenty-two
links from the intersection of the south-west side of Epsom-road
and the south-east side of Lang's-road; bounded thence by a line
bearing S. 45° 41' E. eleven chains forty-eight links; thence by a
road bearing S. 45° W. twenty-five links, S. 45° 41' E. eight
chains forty-five links, S. 45° W. eighty-one links, S. 83° 5' W.
two chains eighty-four links, and S. 6° 55' E. twenty-five links;
thence by the railway to the racecourse bearing westerly
eighteen chains fifty-nine links in an arc of a circle whose centre
lies twenty-seven chains fifty links south-easterly; thence by a
line bearing N. 45° 11' W. twelve chains forty-eight links; and
thence by Lang's-road aforesaid bearing N. 44° 49' E. twenty
chains thirty links to the point of commencement.
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SECOND SCHEDULEPreamble,
section 2.
Sch. 2
amended by
No. 18/1989
s. 13(Sch. 2
item 74(a)).
Land permanently reserved as a Site for Agricultural Show
Purposes by Order in Council dated 5 August 1913 (vide
"Government Gazette" of 13 August 1913, page 3532), and
described in folio of the Register, volume 3807, folium 761226.
Two acres three roods thirty-three perches, county of Bourke,
parish of Doutta Galla, city of Melbourne, being allotment 28C
of Section 3: commencing at the north-east angle of allotment
28A; bounded thence by that allotment bearing S. 83° 23' W.
eight chains twenty-five links; thence by allotment 28B and a
line bearing N. 45° 27' W. two chains four links and a half;
thence by allotment 29 bearing N. 44° 44' E. six chains thirty-
eight links and seven-tenths; and thence by Epsom-road bearing
S. 45° 46' E. seven chains nineteen links and seven-tenths to the
point of commencement.
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THIRD SCHEDULE Preamble,
sections 2, 3.
Sch. 3
amended by
No. 18/1989
s. 13(Sch. 2
item 74(b)).
Land (being Portion of the Land described in the First Schedule
to this Act) transferred to The Victorian Railways
Commissioners by a Transfer dated 21 May 1906, and being the
Lands described in folio of the Register, volume 3157, folium
631216.
Twenty-five perches, county of Bourke, parish of Doutta Galla,
city of Essendon, (being parts of Crown allotment 29), in the
two portions hereinafter described:
(a) Commencing at a point bearing S. 45° W. eighty-one links
and S. 83° 5' W. twenty-three and four-tenths links from
the south-east angle of the land permanently reserved for
the use of the National Agricultural Society of Victoria by
Order in Council dated 15 May 1882; bounded thence by
lines bearing respectively S. 83° 5' W. one chain seven
and two-tenths links, N. 41° 55' E. sixty-eight links, and
south-easterly seventy-two and three-tenths links in an arc
of a circle whose centre lies one chain fifty-one and five-
tenths links north-easterly and chord bearing S. 58° 13' E.
to the point of commencement.
(b) Commencing at a point bearing S. 45° W. eighty-one links
and S. 83° 5' W. two chains seventy-three and three-tenths
links from the south-east angle of the land permanently
reserved for the use of the National Agricultural Society of
Victoria by Order in Council dated 15 May 1882; bounded
thence by lines bearing respectively S. 83° 5' W. ten and
seven-tenths links, S. 6° 55' E. twenty-five links,
S. 82° 47' W. two chains forty-two and five-tenths links,
N. 13° 44' W. thirty-seven and eight-tenths links,
N. 75° 46' E. two chains fifty-four and five-tenths links,
and S. 13° 49' E. forty-four links to the point of
commencement.
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FOURTH SCHEDULEPreamble,
sections 2, 3.
Sch. 4
amended by
No. 18/1989
s. 13(Sch. 2
item 74(b)).
Land (being Portion of the Land described in the Second
Schedule to this Act) transferred to the Mayor Aldermen
Councillors and Citizens of the City of Melbourne by a Transfer
dated 31 July 1926, and being the Land described in folio of the
Register, volume 5232, folium 1046280.
Seventeen perches, county of Bourke, parish of Doutta Galla,
city of Melbourne, (being part of Crown allotment 28C,
section 3): Commencing at the north-east angle of allotment
28A of section 3; bounded thence by that allotment bearing
S. 83° 23' W. nineteen and six-tenths links; by lines bearing
N. 45° 46' W. seven chains seven and five-tenths links, and
N. 44° 44' E. fifteen and one-tenth links; and thence by Epsom-
road bearing S. 45° 46' E. seven chains nineteen and seven-
tenths links to the point of commencement.
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Endnotes
ENDNOTES
General Information
The Royal Agricultural Show-grounds Act 1931 was assented to on
8 October 1931 and came into operation on 8 October 1931.
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Endnotes
2. Table of Amendments
This Version incorporates amendments made to the Royal Agricultural
Show-grounds Act 1931 by Acts and subordinate instruments.
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Transfer of Land (Computer Register) Act 1989, No. 18/1989
Assent Date: 16.5.89
Commencement Date: 3.2.92: Government Gazette 18.12.91 p. 3488
Current State: All of Act in operation
Royal Agricultural Show-grounds (Amendment) Act 1994, No. 72/1994
Assent Date: 25.10.94
Commencement Date: Ss 1, 2 on 25.10.94: s. 2(1); rest of Act on 1.12.94:
Government Gazette 24.11.94 p. 3095
Current State: All of Act in operation
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Endnotes
3. Explanatory Details
1 Preamble: Government Gazette 19 May 1882 page 1127.
2 Preamble: Government Gazette 13 August 1913 page 3532.
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