New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PORT KEMBLA INNER HARBOUR CONSTRUCTION AND AGREEMENT RATIFICATION ACT 1955 - SECT 3

3 Works sanctioned

(1)

(a) The carrying out of the works described in the First Schedule to this Act is hereby sanctioned.

(b) The said works shall be deemed to be authorised works within the meaning of the Public Works Act 1912 , as amended by subsequent Acts.

(c) The Minister for Public Works is empowered to carry out the work described in Part One of the First Schedule to this Act and shall be the constructing authority for the same within the meaning of the said Act, as so amended, and shall enter into such contracts and take all such necessary steps for the proper execution thereof as such authority may think proper.

(d) The Commissioner is empowered to carry out the work described in Part Two of the First Schedule to this Act and shall be the constructing authority for the same within the meaning of the said Act, as so amended, and shall enter into such contracts and take all such necessary steps for the proper execution thereof as such authority may think proper.

(e) Subject to paragraph (f) of this subsection the provisions of the Public Works Act 1912 , as amended by subsequent Acts, sections thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six and thirty-seven excepted, shall apply to and in respect of the works described in the First Schedule to this Act.

(f) The provisions of subsection three of section one hundred and twenty-six of the Public Works Act 1912 , as amended by subsequent Acts, shall not apply to and in respect of the work described in Part Two of the First Schedule to this Act.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection one of this section the provisions of section thirty-eight of the Public Works Act 1912 , as amended by subsequent Acts, shall apply to and in respect of any contracts referred to in paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection one of this section.