New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GRAFTON WATER SUPPLY ACT 1956 - SECT 3

3 Dissolution of body corporate and transfer of the works to the council

(1) The body corporate constituted by section three of the Grafton and South Grafton Water Supply Administration Act 1915 , as amended by subsequent Acts, under the name of the “Grafton and South Grafton Water Board” is hereby dissolved.

(2) All administration, control and management of the works exercisable by the board immediately before the commencement of this Act under the Grafton and South Grafton Water Supply Administration Act 1915 , as amended by subsequent Acts, shall be exercisable by the council.
The provisions or the Local Government Act 1919 , as amended by subsequent Acts, shall apply to the works and to the council in respect of the works.

(3) All real and personal property including all books and documents and all right and interest therein which immediately before the commencement of this Act were vested in or belonged to the board shall vest in and belong to the council.

(4) All rates, charges, moneys, liquidated and unliquidated claims which immediately before the commencement of this Act were payable to or recoverable by the board shall respectively be rates, charges, moneys, liquidated and unliquidated claims payable to or recoverable by the council.

(5) All suits, actions and proceedings pending immediately before the commencement of this Act at the suit of the board shall respectively be suits, actions and proceedings pending at the suit of the council.

(6) All contracts, agreements and undertakings entered into with and all securities lawfully given to or by the board and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall respectively be deemed to be contracts, agreements and undertakings entered into with and securities given to or by the council.

(7) The council may pursue the same remedies for the recovery of any such rates, charges, moneys and claims and for the prosecution of such suits, actions and proceedings as the board might have done but for this Act.

(8) The council may enforce and realise any security or charge existing immediately before the commencement of this Act in favour of the board in respect of any such rates, charges, moneys and claims as if such security or charge were existing in favour of the council.

(9) All debts due and moneys payable by the board and all claims liquidated or unliquidated recoverable against the board shall be debts due, moneys payable by and claims recoverable against the council.

(10) No attornment by a lessee of any land vested in the council by this section shall be necessary.