Irrigation Act 1912 (NSW)

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An Act to make better provision for the construction, control, and management of works of water conservation, irrigation, and water supply, and for the constitution, administration, and management of irrigation areas; for the resumption and the disposal of land; to repeal certain Acts; to amend certain other Acts; and for purposes consequent thereon or incidental thereto.

Part 1Preliminary1Name of Act and commencement(1)

This Act may be cited as the Irrigation Act 1912.

(2)

This Act originally commenced on 1 January 1913.

2Repeal(1)

The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Act 1910 is repealed.

(2)

Such repeal shall not:

  • (a)

    affect any lease, reservation, dedication, proclamation, appointment, or notification lawfully made before the commencement of this Act, or

  • (b)

    prejudice or affect any proceeding matter or thing lawfully done or commenced, or contracted to be done, under the authority of any enactment hereby repealed.

3Definitions

In this Act the following terms shall, if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter, have the following meanings:

Discharged soldier shall have the same meaning as that assigned to that expression by the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act 1916.

Improvements includes all works, buildings, machinery, plantations, and other improvements provided or effected under the authority of the Act hereby repealed, or by or under the authority of the Ministerial Corporation or this Act.

Irrigation area means irrigation area constituted under the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Act 1910 or under this Act.

Local government area has the same meaning as area has in the Local Government Act 1993.

Ministerial Corporation means the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation constituted by the Water Administration Act 1986.

Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme includes the irrigation areas known respectively as Yanco No 1, Yanco No 2, Yanco No 3, Mirrool No 1, and Mirrool No 2, and any irrigation area which may be constituted of lands adjoining or adjacent to such irrigation areas, and all works, services, and operations in connection with any of such areas or works constructed under the Barren Jack Dam and Murrumbidgee Canals Construction Act 1906, and the railway from Goondah to Burrinjuck.

Noxious animal where used in this Act, or in any notification published in the Gazette in respect of any land in an irrigation area either before or after the passing of this Act, means any animal which the Ministerial Corporation may from time to time notify in the Gazette to be noxious.

Noxious weed or noxious plant, where used in this Act, or in any notification published in the Gazette in respect of any land in an irrigation area either before or after the passing of this Act, means any weed, plant, grass, or growth, which the Ministerial Corporation may from time to time notify in the Gazette to be noxious, and includes any part and seeds of any such weed, plant, grass, or growth.

Occupier means person holding under any tenure any land in an irrigation area.

The Construction Act means the Barren Jack Dam and Murrumbidgee Canals…

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