New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BROKEN HILL TO SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BORDER RAILWAY AGREEMENT ACT 1968 - SECT 5

5 Acquisition of land

(1) The Governor may resume, appropriate or acquire under the provisions of the Public Works Act 1912 , as subsequently amended, any land in New South Wales required for or in connection with any of the works contemplated by the Agreement and for that purpose The Commissioner for Railways for the State of New South Wales shall have all the powers of a constructing authority under the said Act, as so amended. The Railway and other works mentioned in the Agreement shall be deemed to be authorised works within the meaning of the said Act, as so amended, for the purposes of this section and of section 6.

(2) Such land when so resumed, appropriated or acquired shall be vested in the South Australian Railways Commissioner: Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any land, resumed, appropriated or acquired for the purpose of providing a public road or other public service unconnected with the Railway made necessary by the construction of the Railway.