Lake Ballyrogan Storage Act 1946 (NSW)

An Act to sanction and to provide for the construction of a water-conserving storage in Lake Ballyrogan; to amend the Public Works Act, 1912, in certain respects; and for purposes connected therewith. [As- sented to, 1st April, 1946.] BE

LAKE BALLYROGAN STORAGE ACT.

Act No. 21, 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 "Lake Ballyrogan Storage 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 neces­ sary 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 sub­ section 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 . The cost of carrying out the said work is estimated at two hundred thousand pounds and such estimated cost shall not, under any circumstances, be exceeded by more
than ten per centum.
4 . 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 o r " ;
(b)	Section one hundred and twenty-six is amended by inserting at the end of subsection two the following proviso:

Provided

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 com- pensation is payable.

SCHEDULE.

A diversion weir in the Lachlan River, a diversion channel from. the Lachlan River to Lake Ballyrogan, an outlet channel from Lake Ballyrogan to the Lachlan River, embankments, regulators and bridges, together with works incidental thereto; all to provide for the diversion of water from the Lachlan River and storage of water in Lake Ballyrogan and discharge of water from that storage to the Lachlan River.