Glenbawn Dam Act 1946 (NSW)

GLENBAWN DAM ACT.

Act No. 30, 1946.

An Act to sanction and to provide for the construction of a dam across the Hunter River at Glenbawn and works incidental thereto; to amend the Public Works Act, 1912, in certain respects; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 24th April, 1946.]

BE it- enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­	Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as the "Glenbawn Dam Act,

1946."

2 . (1) (a) The carrying out of the work described in the Schedule to this Act is hereby sanctioned.

(b) The said work shall be deemed to be an authorised work within the meaning of the Public Works Act, 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts.

(c) The Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission is empowered to carry out the said work, and shall be the constructing authority for the same within the meaning of the said Act, as so amended, and shall enter into such contracts and take all such necessary steps for the proper execution thereof as such authority may think proper.

(d) The provisions of the Public Works Act, 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts, sections thirty- four, thirty-five, thirty-six and thirty-seven excepted, shall apply to and in respect of the said work.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsec­ tion one of this section the provisions of section thirty- eight of the Public Works Act, 1912, as amended by- subsequent Acts, shall apply to and in respect of any contracts referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection one

of this section. 3 .

3 . The plan of the said work is the plan marked Hunter River Proposed Glenbawn Bam," sealed with

the Seal of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission, and deposited in the head office of the said Commission.

4 . The cost of carrying out the said work is estimated a t one million five hundred thousand pounds and such estimated cost shall not, under any circumstances, be exceeded by more than ten per centum.

5. For the purposes of this Act, but not otherwise, the following amendments and additions shall be made in the Public Works Act, 1912, that is to say:—

(a)	Section ninety-eight is amended by inserting in subsection three before the words "public works" the words "authorised works or".
(b)	Section one hundred and twenty-six is amended by inserting at the end of subsection two the following proviso:

Provided that such interest shall not be paid for any period during which delay in fixing the amount of compensation or in completing title has been caused without reasonable excuse by the act or default of the person to whom such compensation is payable.

S C H E D U L E .

(1) ( a ) A n ear th d a m across the H u n t e r River about 8 miles above the junc t ion of t he H u n t e r and Page ' s Rivers w i th in por t ion

3 par i sh of Macqueen, county of Br isbane , and por t ion 49, par i sh of Rouchel , county of D u r h a m , of a he igh t sufficient to s tore about 120,000 acre feet of water , wi th spillway, ga tes and out le ts for regula t ion of the discharge of water from the storage.

(b) Road deviat ions and roads of access together wi th

s t ruc tu re s inc identa l thereto .

(2) The whole of the works hereinbefore described to be subject to such modifications as m a y be deemed desirable by the Cons t ruc t ing Au tho r i t y .

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