Land Acquisition (The Southern Electric Authority of Queensland) Act 1967 (NSW)

LAND ACQUISITION (THE SOUTHERN ELECTRIC

AUTHORITY OF QUEENSLAND) ACT.

ANNO SEXTO DECIMO

ELIZABETHS II BEGINS

Act No. 3, 1967.

An Act to authorise the resumption or appropriation of certain land by The Southern Electric Authority of Queensland for use in connection with the supply of electricity; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 14th March, 1967.]

(1) This Act may be cited as the "Land Acquisition

(The Southern Electric Authority of Queensland) Act,
1967".

(2)

BE it 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: —

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(2) In this Act the Local Government Act, 1919, as amended by subsequent Acts, is referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) This Act shall be read and construed with the

Principal Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context or subject matter otherwise indicates or requires—

"Authority" means The Southern Electric Authority of Queensland constituted by and under The Southern Electric Authority of Queensland Act of 1952 of the Parliament of Queensland or any Act amending or replacing that Act.

"Land" has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection two of section five hundred and thirty-one of the Principal Act.

(1) The Authority may, in accordance with Part XXV of the Principal Act, as modified by subsection two of this section, and with the provisions of any Ordinance made under the Principal Act in relation to the acquisition by a council of land by appropriation or resumption, acquire land in New South Wales by appropriation or resumption for the purposes of the supply of electricity in any part of New South Wales in which the Authority is authorised by law to supply electricity and, for the purposes of any such acquisition, a reference in that Part or in any such Ordinance to a council acquiring land by appropriation or resumption shall be construed as a reference to the Authority.

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(2) For the purposes only of subsection one of this

section, Part XXV of the Principal Act shall be deemed to
be modified as follows, that is to say :—

(a)	by inserting in subsection two of section five hundred and thirty-six after the word "council" where secondly occurring the words "in whose area the land is situated";
(b)	by omitting subparagraph (i) of paragraph (f) of subsection two of section 536c.

For the purposes of section 88A of the Conveyancing Act, 1919, as amended by subsequent Acts, the Authority shall be deemed to be a public or local authority constituted by Act of Parliament.

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