Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Eastern Freeway Lands Act 1971 - SECT 6

Notice of completion of works

6. Notice of completion of works



(1) On completion of the works in connexion with the diversion of the Yarra
River the Board of Works shall cause notice of such completion to be published
in the Government Gazette.

(2) Upon publication of the notice-

   (a)  the former river course shall be divested from the Board of Works and
        the bed soil and banks of the new course of the river shall be deemed
        to be vested in the Board of Works pursuant to section 271 of the
        Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1958;

   (b)  the Order in Council dated 26th March, 1935 permanently reserving
        certain land as a site for a public park and recreation and the Crown
        grant dated the same day whereby the said land was granted to trustees
        on trust for that purpose and all regulations made in respect of that
        land shall be deemed and taken for all purposes to relate also to so
        much of the former river course not required for the highway as is
        situated in Yarra Bend Park;

   (c)  the balance of the former river course shall be deemed to be
        unalienated land of the Crown freed and discharged from all trusts
        encumbrances reservations limitations and restrictions whatsoever and
        from every estate or interest therein; and

   (d)  so much of the common boundary between the cities of Kew and Northcote
        as before the diversion lay along the centre of the
        former river course shall lie along the centre of the new course of
        the river.

(3) In this section "former river course" means the bed soil and banks that as
the result of the diversion of the Yarra River under this Act cease to be part
of the course of the river.