City of Sydney Lanes Act (1893 No 18a) (NSW)

No. X X .

An Act to empower the Municipal Council of

the City of Sydney to take over certain

Lanes as now formed and made in the

City of Sydney. [5th June, 1893.]

Victoria number three, that no strBet, lane, or alley shall be formed	WHEREAS it is amongst other things provided by the sixty-ninth section of the " Sydney Corporation Act of 1879," forty-third
within the said city unless such strBet be of the width of sixty-six
fBet at least, and such lane or alley of the width of twenty fBet at least
in every part thereof respectively : And whereas by the seventy- second section of the said Act it is further provided that every such public way shall, when formed and completed, be held to be for ever dedicated to the public use, and all such ways as shall have been formed either at the public expense or otherwise prior to the coming in force of the said Act; and all public ways thereafter formed shall be held to have been and to be from the time of the formation and completion of the same for ever dedicated to the public use, and shall be vested in and under the control, management, and direction of the
Council; And whereas certain lanes in the city of Sydney have been
laid out, formed, and made, but have not been accepted or taken over as public ways by the said Municipal Council of Sydney, as the said lanes do not conform in width with the requirements of the said cited
Acts : And whereas it is desirable that the said Municipal Council of
Sydney should have power to accept the public dedication of and take over the said lanes under the seventy-second section of the said first recited

recited Act : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—
1. It shall be lawful for the Municipal Council of the city of

Sydney,on the approval of the Governor with the advice of the Executive

Council, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any
of the said cited Acts, or in any other Act, to approve, accept, and
take over ail lanes in the said city, formed and made prior to the passing of the " Sydney Corporation Act of 1879," and which are under the width of twenty fBet; and such lanes, when dedicated to the public use, and approved, accepted, and taken over by the said Municipal Council shall thereby vest in the said Council as public ways, and shall thenceforth be deemed to be under the control, management, and direction of the said Council, pursuant to the provisions of the seventy-second section of the " Sydney Corporation Act of 1879," for
all purposes of that Act, and any Act amending the same, and as if
the said lanes had been formed in compliance with the provisions in

that behalf contained in the said cited Acts.

2. This Act may be cited as the " City of Sydney Lanes Act."