Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Chinatown Historic Precinct Act 1984 - SECT 4

The Chinatown Historic Precinct

4. The Chinatown Historic Precinct



(1) There shall be a Chinatown Historic Precinct which subject to this section
shall be comprised of-

   (a)  Little Bourke-street between Exhibition-street and Swanston-street in
        the City of Melbourne;

   (b)  all the streets roads highways alleys thoroughfares lanes squares
        courts or passages (but not including Swanston-street Bourke-street
        Russell-street Lonsdale-street or Exhibition-street) on the land
        bounded by-

   (i)  Swanston-street Bourke-street Russell-street and Little Bourke-street
        in the City of Melbourne;

   (ii) Swanston-street Lonsdale-street Russell-street and Little
        Bourke-street in the City of Melbourne;

   (iii) Russell-street Bourke-street Exhibition-street and Little
        Bourke-street in the City of Melbourne; and

   (iv) Russell-street Lonsdale-street Exhibition-street and Little
        Bourke-street in the City of Melbourne-

whether or not those streets roads highways alleys thoroughfares lanes squares
courts or passages or any of them are or is dedicated to the public as a
public highway within the meaning of any law now or hereafter in force; and

   (c)  any land declared under subsection (2) to be part of the precinct.

(2) The Governor in Council may by Order published in the Government Gazette
declare any land described in the Order to be part of the precinct and on and
from the day on which the Order is so published the land shall be part of the
precinct.

(3) The Governor in Council may in the like manner revoke in whole or in part
any Order under subsection (2) and on the day on which an Order under this
subsection is published in the Government Gazette the land described in the
Order under this subsection shall cease to be part of the precinct.

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