New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (CITY OF SYDNEY BOUNDARIES) ACT 1967 - SECT 12

12 Alteration of areas

(1) On the appointed day:

(a) the division into wards of the City of Sydney as constituted immediately before that day, shall be abolished,

(b) the boundaries of the City of Sydney shall be altered by taking therefrom the land described in Schedules One, Two, Three and Four so that the boundaries of the City of Sydney shall be as described in Schedule Five,

(c) the boundaries of the Municipalities of Leichhardt, Marrickville and Woollahra shall be altered by adding thereto the lands described in Schedules One, Two and Three respectively so that the boundaries of the Municipalities of Leichhardt, Marrickville and Woollahra shall be as described in Schedules Six, Seven and Eight respectively,

(d) the land described in Schedule Four shall be constituted as a separate municipality, under the name of the Municipality of Northcott.

(2) The alteration of areas , and the taking of land from the area of the City of Sydney and the constitution of that land as a separate municipality, effected pursuant to paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of subsection one of this section, shall be deemed to be an exercise of the powers conferred on the Governor by paragraphs (a) and (c) of section sixteen of the Principal Act, and the provisions of that Act shall, to the extent to which provision is not otherwise made in this Act, apply as if on the day upon which the assent of Her Majesty to this Act is signified, proclamations had been made by the Governor under paragraphs (a) and (c) of section sixteen of the Principal Act providing that the alterations of areas, and the taking of land from the City of Sydney and the constitution of that land as a separate municipality, shall be effected on the appointed day.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection two of this section and anything contained in the Principal Act, the ordinances in force in, and the provisions of any rule, regulation, by-law, notification or proclamation that applied to, the City of Sydney as constituted immediately before the appointed day shall continue on and after the appointed day to be in force in, and to apply to, the City of Sydney as constituted by this Act and the parts taken from the City of Sydney and added to the Municipalities of Leichhardt, Marrickville and Woollahra, or constituted as the Municipality of Northcott.
The ordinances, rules, regulations, by-laws, notifications or proclamations referred to in this subsection may under the provisions of the Act under which they were in force be repealed, rescinded, revoked, varied or amended at any time after the appointed day.

(4) For the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this section, any proclamation which the Governor is authorised to make under section twenty-one of the Principal Act may be made at any time either before or after the appointed day.