186Transitional provision for Melbourne Parks and Waterways

186 Transitional provision for Melbourne Parks and Waterways

Except as otherwise provided in this Act, on the commencement of section 8 of the Water Industry (Amendment) Act 2000—

(a) Melbourne Parks and Waterways is abolished and the members of its Board of directors go out of office; and

(b) all rights, property and assets that, immediately before that commencement were vested in Melbourne Parks and Waterways, vest in the State; and

(c) all debts, liabilities and obligations of Melbourne Parks and Waterways existing immediately before that commencement, become debts, liabilities and obligations of the State; and

(d) the State is substituted as a party to any proceedings pending in any court or tribunal to which Melbourne Parks and Waterways was a party immediately before that commencement; and

(e) the State is substituted as a party to any arrangement or contract entered into by or on behalf of Melbourne Parks and Waterways and in force immediately before that commencement; and

(f) any reference to Melbourne Parks and Waterways in any Act or in any proclamation, Order in Council, rule, regulation, order, agreement, instrument, deed or other document, so far as it relates to any period after that commencement, and if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter, must be construed as a reference to the State.

New s. 187 inserted by No. 66/2000 s. 23.