City of Brisbane Acts and Another Act Amendment Act of 1959 (8 Eliz Ii No. 70) (Qld)

<$ueensla«h 521 ANNO OCTAVO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE. No. 70. An Act to Amend "The City of Brisbane Acts, 1924 to 1959," and "The City of Brisbane (Town Plan) Act of 1959," each in certain particulars. [A ssented to 23 rd D ecember , 1959.] B E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­ lative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 1. (1.) This Act may be cited as “ The City of Short title- Brisbane Acts and Another Act Amendment Act of 1959.” (2.) “ The City of Brisbane Acts , 1924 to 1959,” |jj“oipal are in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. * (3.) The Principal Act and this Act may be Collective collectively cited as “ The City of Brisbane Acts, 1924 1 6‘ to 1959.” 2. Subsection three of section thirty-six of the Amendment Principal Act is amended by adding thereto the0*8' ' following paragraph:— “ The power of the Council to make ordinances and in particular its power to make ordinances in relation to sewerage, drainage, the removal, suppression and abatement of nuisances and noxious and offensive

522 City of Brisbane Acts, Etc., Act. 8 E liz . II. No. 70, 1959. trades, shall include power to make from time to time all such ordinances as are necessary or convenient to prevent the pollution of, or the creation of any nuisance in relation to, any tidal water or tidal land within or abutting upon the Area of the City of Brisbane by the discharge, putting or casting thereinto or thereon from within such Area of sewage, drainage, waste process water from any factory or manufacturing process, or any filth, rubbish, refuse or other substance or thing : Provided that the provisions of this paragraph apply so as not to limit any provision of “ The Health Acts, 1937 to 1958,” or “ The Harbours Acts, 1955 to 1959,” save that a person shall not be liable to be convicted both under any such provision and under any ordinance made in pursuance of this paragraph in respect of any act or omission which is an offence against both.” Amendment 3. “ The City of Brisbane (Toum Plan) Act of Nofo8. E18li.z. II., 1959,” is amended by adding the following section:— Acquisition “ [14.] Where having regard to the economic of land. development and due planning of the City, the Council is of the opinion that it is necessary or desirable to do so in order to prevent any proposed development or use of land subdivided into parcels of less than one-half acre in area before the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, in accordance with such subdivision, the Council may purchase by agreement or pursuant to the provisions of “ The City of Brisbane Improvement Acts, 1916 to 1953,” take such land.”