New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GENERAL POST OFFICE (APPROACHES IMPROVEMENT) ACT 1889 - SECT 5

5 Statutory authority of Minister to complete work, and power to sell or lease residue of land

Notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act, this Act shall, for all purposes whatsoever, be deemed to be an absolute statutory authority, enabling the Minister for Public Works to commence and complete, subject to such plans and conditions as the Governor, with the advice aforesaid, shall prescribe, the enlargement and improvement of the thoroughfare hereinafter mentioned; and the lands resumed by this Act, together with the portion of land mentioned in subsection (b) of this section, shall be used for, and applied to, the purposes following, that is to say:

(a) Towards the formation and making of a public street one hundred feet wide, between George and Pitt Streets, and such street, after formation and completion by the said Minister, shall, upon a proclamation by the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, published in the Gazette, become vested in the Municipal Council of the City of Sydney in the same manner as other public highways of the said City are vested in the said Council, and subject to the like powers and obligations as are applicable in respect of such public highways.

(b) The residue of the said lands remaining after the formation of the said street, together with the portion of land situate between the lands resumed by this Act, and commonly known as the Tank Stream, may be sold or leased by public auction, at such times, for such prices, and subject to such terms, conditions, covenants and provisions for buildings (temporary or perpetual), and for the occupation thereof, as the Governor, with the advice aforesaid, may determine.