Hastings River Harbour Works Act 1899 (NSW)

Act No. 8, 1899.

An Act to sanct ion the carrying out of Harbour

Works Act of 1888, the Legislative Assembly did, by resolution, declare that it was expedient that a certain work, namely, harbour works at Hastings River, as referred by the said Assembly to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, should be carried out : And whereas the said resolution imposed a statutory duty on the Secretary for Public Works to introduce a Bill into the said Assembly to sanction the carrying out of the said work: Be it there­ fore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice

W o r k s	at	Has t ings	River.	[24th	October,
1899.]

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the Public

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. The carrying out of the said work (more particularly described in the Schedule to this Act) is hereby sanctioned, and the Secretary for Public Works, or the Member of the Executive Council for the time being performing the duties of the said Secretary, is hereby authorised to undertake and carry out the said work subject to the provisions of this Act, and for that purpose shall be, and shall have the powers and duties of, a Constructing Authority within the meaning of the Public Works Act of 188S.

2. The plan of the said work is the plan marked " Hastings River Entrance," signed by the Secretary for Public Works and countersigned by the Engineer-in-Chief for Public Works, and deposited in the public office of the said Secretary.
3. The cost of carrying out the said work, estimated at fourteen thousand five hundred pounds, may be defrayed from such Loan Votes as are now or may hereafter be applicable to that purpose, and shall not under any circumstances exceed the estimated cost by more than ten per centum.

4. This Act may be cited as the "Hast ings River Harbour

Works Act, 1899."

S C H E D U L E .

Improvements to the entrance of the Hastings River.

The extension of the exist ing southern t ra in ing-wal l in an easter ly direction for a d is tance of two thousand t h r e e hundred and fifteen feet, marked " 1 " in plan.