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New South Wales act
Mechanically, this Act vests a small Sydney parcel in the University of Sydney in fee simple to be held on trust and subgranted to the Council of the Women’s College, and treats that land as part of the college site under earlier law. It also validates a £4,000 payment made by the Colonial Treasurer in June 1929 in lieu of further endowment payments and repeals the Women’s College Endowment Act 1916. Affects the University, the College Council and state finances by replacing continuing statutory payments with a one‑off validated payment.
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Direct links to the current provisions in Women’s College (Lands) Act 1929.
2 Vesting and trusts
(1) The lands mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby vested in the University of Sydney for an estate in fee simple to hold the same upon trust to make and execute a subgrant thereof upon trust for the Council of the Women’s College in the like manner and with the like provisions as by section eight of the University and College Lands Victoria Park Act 1924 are to be contained in the subgrant which the University of Sydney is empowered to make by such section.
(2) The said land described in the Schedule shall for the purposes of the Women’s College Act 1902 be deemed to be part of the land granted to the Council of the Women’s College as a site for buildings and recreation grounds for the College.
3 Validation and repeal
(1) The payment by the Colonial Treasurer to the Council of the said College of the sum of four thousand pounds on or about the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, in lieu of any further payment under the provisions of the Women’s College Endowment Act 1916, is hereby validated.
(2) The Women’s College Endowment Act 1916 is hereby repealed.
Schedule
ALL that piece or parcel of land situated in the city of Sydney, parish of Petersham, county of Cumberland, New South Wales, containing an area of 16¼ perches or thereabouts.
Commencing on the northern side of Carillon-avenue at a point bearing 258 degrees 53 minutes 313 feet 11¼ inches from its intersection with the north-western side of King-street, and bounded thence on the south-east by Carillon-avenue bearing 258 degrees 53 minutes 27 feet ½ inch to the centre of a stone wall, on the south-west by the centre of that stone wall bearing 339 degrees 30 minutes 121 feet 6 inches, on the north-west by a line bearing 78 degrees 17 minutes 46 feet 11 inches, on the north-east by a line, the eastern face of a brick wall of a brick building and the eastern face of another brick wall, in all bearing 168 degrees 55 minutes 120 feet 4½ inches to the point of commencement, comprising the whole of the land in Conveyance No 628, Book 1,143, as shown upon a plan catalogued Ms 7,354 Sy, in the Department of Lands, Sydney.
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1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the Women’s College (Lands) Act 1929.
2 Vesting and trusts
(1) The lands mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby vested in the University of Sydney for an estate in fee simple to hold the same upon trust to make and execute a subgrant thereof upon trust for the Council of the Women’s College in the like manner and with the like provisions as by section eight of the University and College Lands Victoria Park Act 1924 are to be contained in the subgrant which the University of Sydney is empowered to make by such section.
(2) The said land described in the Schedule shall for the purposes of the Women’s College Act 1902 be deemed to be part of the land granted to the Council of the Women’s College as a site for buildings and recreation grounds for the College.
3 Validation and repeal
(1) The payment by the Colonial Treasurer to the Council of the said College of the sum of four thousand pounds on or about the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, in lieu of any further payment under the provisions of the Women’s College Endowment Act 1916, is hereby validated.
(2) The Women’s College Endowment Act 1916 is hereby repealed.
Schedule
ALL that piece or parcel of land situated in the city of Sydney, parish of Petersham, county of Cumberland, New South Wales, containing an area of 16¼ perches or thereabouts.
Commencing on the northern side of Carillon-avenue at a point bearing 258 degrees 53 minutes 313 feet 11¼ inches from its intersection with the north-western side of King-street, and bounded thence on the south-east by Carillon-avenue bearing 258 degrees 53 minutes 27 feet ½ inch to the centre of a stone wall, on the south-west by the centre of that stone wall bearing 339 degrees 30 minutes 121 feet 6 inches, on the north-west by a line bearing 78 degrees 17 minutes 46 feet 11 inches, on the north-east by a line, the eastern face of a brick wall of a brick building and the eastern face of another brick wall, in all bearing 168 degrees 55 minutes 120 feet 4½ inches to the point of commencement, comprising the whole of the land in Conveyance No 628, Book 1,143, as shown upon a plan catalogued Ms 7,354 Sy, in the Department of Lands, Sydney.