Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Melbourne (Snowden Gardens) Land Act 1975 - SECT 6

Governor in Council may enter into agreements

6. Governor in Council may enter into agreements



(1) Notwithstanding anything in any Act the Governor in Council may upon such
terms and conditions as the Governor in Council thinks fit and upon such
conditions as the council of the municipal district in which the land is
situated deems necessary grant to the Victorian Arts Centre Building Committee
any authority necessary or expedient to enable the Committee to occupy all or
any of the parts of the roads known as Riverside-avenue, City-road,
South-gate, and Sturt-street that abut lands reserved under this Act or under
the Melbourne South Land Act 1946 for any portion of the Victorian Arts Centre
or for constructing and maintaining in, on, over, or under any of those roads
any bridges, ramps, stairs, or pedestrian ways, service tunnels, pipes and
cables for any of the purposes of the Centre and areas to be used for
ornamental purposes or for the recreation, convenience, refreshment, or
amusement of the people.

(2) The Victorian Arts Centre Building Committee may enter into agreements
with the councils of the Cities of Melbourne and South Melbourne with respect
to the maintenance and management of pedestrian ways and the areas referred to
in sub-section (1) to be used for ornamental purposes or for the recreation,
convenience, refreshment, or amusement of the people.

(3) Each such council may do or suffer anything necessary or expedient for
carrying any such agreement into effect and where any such agreement is
entered into between the Victorian Arts Centre Building Committee and both
councils each council may do anything necessary or expedient for carrying the
agreement into effect in the municipal district of the other council.