Victorian Consolidated Legislation

La Trobe University (Bendigo and Wodonga) Act 1990 - SECT 6

PART 3 DISSOLUTION OF BENDIGO AND INCORPORATION WITH LA TROBE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NORTHERN VICTORIA

Transfer of Bendigo assets and liabilities

6. Transfer of Bendigo assets and liabilities

Subject to this Act, on and from the Appointed Day-

   (a)  Bendigo and its Council are dissolved and the College is their
        successor in law; and

   (b)  the assets and rights of Bendigo or its Council vest in the College;
        and

   (c)  the liabilities and obligations of Bendigo or its Council become
        liabilities or obligations of the College; and

   (d)  any scholarship, prize or bursary of a continuing nature administered
        by Bendigo or its Council and existing immediately before the
        Appointed Day shall be administered by the College as if it were a
        scholarship, prize or bursary of the College, but otherwise in
        accordance with the terms and conditions to which it was subject
        immediately before the Appointed Day; and

   (e)  all contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements, arrangements, guarantees and
        other instruments (except contracts, agreements or arrangements
        relating to the members of staff of Bendigo) made or entered into by,
        on behalf of, or in relation to Bendigo or its Council and in force
        immediately before the Appointed Day have effect as if made or entered
        into by, on behalf of, or in relation to, the College; and



   (f)  all actions, claims, arbitrations, applications and other proceedings
        (including proceedings on appeal or review) pending or existing
        immediately before the Appointed Day by, against, or in relation to
        Bendigo or its Council have effect as if they were proceedings by,
        against, or in relation to the College, and may be continued and
        completed accordingly; and

   (g)  any permit, licence or authority of any kind whatsoever issued or
        granted to Bendigo or its Council by or under any Act continues to
        operate, despite anything in this Act, in favour of the College in the
        same way and to the same extent as it operated in favour of Bendigo or
        its Council; and

   (h)  unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to Bendigo or its
        Council is deemed to be a reference to the College if the reference-

   (i)  is in an Act, other than this Act, a subordinate instrument within the
        meaning of the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984, a judgment or
        order or any other document whatever; and

   (ii) is in relation to a period occurring on or after the Appointed Day;
        and

        (i)    all records and documents of Bendigo or its Council become the
               property of the College.