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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Melbourne (Flinders Street Land) Act 2003
Act No.
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Clause Page
1. Purposes 2
2. Commencement 2
3. Divesting of land from Melbourne City Council 2
4. Preserving rights under certain Acts 3
5. Repeal of certain sections of the Melbourne (Flinders-street)
Land Act 1958 3
ENDNOTES 4
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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Initiated in Assembly 8 April 2003
A BILL
to provide for the divesting of certain land in the vicinity of Flinders
Street from the Melbourne City Council, and for the revocation of the
reservation of that land, to amend the Melbourne (Flinders-street)
Land Act 1958 and for related matters.
Melbourne (Flinders Street Land) Act
2003
The land described in the paragraphs I, II and III of
the Second Schedule to The Railway Melbourne
Lands Exchange Act 1888, with the exception of
certain areas provided for in the King-street
Bridge Act 1957, was, by the operation of the
Melbourne (Flinders-street) Land Act 1958,
vested in the Lord Mayor Councillors and Citizens
of the City of Melbourne for municipal purposes.
A part of that land was divested from the
Melbourne City Council by the Melbourne Lands
(Yarra River North Bank) Act 1997.
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It is now proposed to divest the remainder of the
land from the Melbourne City Council and revoke
the reservation of that land.
The Parliament of Victoria therefore enacts as follows:
1. Purposes
The purposes of this Act are--
(a) to divest land from the Melbourne City
Council and revoke the reservation of the
5 land; and
(b) to amend the Melbourne (Flinders-street)
Land Act 1958; and
(c) to provide for other related matters.
2. Commencement
10 (1) Subject to sub-section (2), this Act comes into
operation on a day to be proclaimed.
(2) If this Act does not come into operation before
30 June 2005, it expires on that day.
3. Divesting of land from Melbourne City Council
15 The land vested in the Melbourne City Council
under the Melbourne (Flinders-street) Land Act
1958 is divested from the Melbourne City Council
and--
(a) is deemed to be unalienated land of the
20 Crown, freed and discharged from all trusts,
limitations, reservations, restrictions,
encumbrances, estates and interests; and
(b) any regulations made under the Crown
Land (Reserves) Act 1978 are revoked in so
25 far as they apply to the land.
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4. Preserving rights under certain Acts
Nothing in this Act affects--
(a) any rights under the Melbourne
Underground Rail Loop Act 1970 over the
5 land divested from the Melbourne City
Council by section 3; and
(b) any rights under the Transport Act 1983
over the land divested from the Melbourne
City Council by section 3, being rights that
10 apply to the Flinders Street Viaduct Railway;
and
(c) any rights of passage under section 5 of the
Melbourne Lands (Yarra River North
Bank) Act 1997 over any of the land
15 divested from the Melbourne City Council
by section 3.
See: 5. Repeal of certain sections of the Melbourne (Flinders-
Act No.
street) Land Act 1958
6178.
LawToday:
Sections 2 and 3 of the Melbourne (Flinders-
www.dms.
dpc.vic.
20 street) Land Act 1958 are repealed.
gov.au
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Endnotes
Act No.
ENDNOTES
By Authority. Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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