Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Corio to Newport Pipeline Act 1953 - SECT 5

Provision for extension of this Act to easements etc. for other works

5. Provision for extension of this Act to easements etc. for other works



(1) When plans for the treatment and disposal of effluent from the company's
installations at Corio have been submitted by the company to the Minister and
approved, on the recommendation of the Commission of Public Health, by Order
of the Governor in Council published in the Government Gazette, the provisions
of sections three and four of this Act shall extend and apply to the granting
of leases easements licences and other authorities for the construction of
works for the intake and outflow of water from and to Corio Bay to and from
the said installations, but until the said publication no such lease easement
licence or authority shall be granted to the company by any
public statutory corporation.

(2) The discharge from the company's installations at Corio into Corio Bay of
any water which is polluted by oil or oil wastes or otherwise offensive shall,
without prejudice to any other proceedings which might be instituted thereon,
be deemed a nuisance within the meaning of Part III of the Health Act 1928 and
the Commission of Public Health shall have and may exercise in respect of any
such nuisance all the powers duties and authorities conferred and imposed by
that Part upon municipal councils and upon the Commission, and all the
provisions of the Health Acts with respect to such nuisances or relating to or
consequent upon proceedings therefor shall so far as applicable apply
accordingly.