Newcastle Wharf (Merewether-street) Act 1950 (NSW)

NEWCASTLE WHARF (MEREWETHER-STREET)

ACT.

Act No. 3, 1950.

An Act to sanction and provide for the construe- i No. 3,1950.^

tion of an additional wharf adjacent to	—
Merewether-street, Newcastle; and for pur­ poses connected therewith. [Assented to, 24th March, 1950.]

T ) E it enacted by the KingVi Most Excellent Majesty, I j by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­ lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows

1. This Act may be cited as the “ Newcastle Wharf short

(Merewether-street) Act, 1950.”

6                    Newcastle Wharf (Merewether-street) Act.

No.8,1950.	2 . (1) (a) The carrying out of the work described in the Schedule to this Act is hereby sanctioned.
Work
•anctioned.	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 Minister for Public Works is empowered to carry out the said work and sha!ll 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 fit.
(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) For the purposes of this Act, but not otherwise, the Public Works Act, 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts, is amended by omitting from section eighty-one the words: “ Provided that no highway so dedicated shall exceed one chain in width.”
Plan.	3 . The plan of the said work is the plan marked “ Merewether Street W harf” signed by the Minister for Public Works and countersigned by the Chief Engineer, Department of Public Works, and deposited in the public office of the said Minister.
Cost of	4 . The cost of carrying but the said work (exclusive of land resumptions) is estimated at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds and such estimated cost shall not under any circumstances be exceeded by more than ten per centum.
work.

SCHEDULE.

■Church of England Trust Property (Amendment)

Act.

SCHEDULE. Mo. 3,1960.

The construction and equipment of an additional wharf approximately nine hundred and sixty-six feet long on the foreshores of Newcastle Harbour adjacent to Merewether-street, Newcastle, and ancillary works comprising;—

(a) cargo sheds, shelter sheds and amenities;

(b) a boat harbour and sheds;

(c) a forty-foot wide wharf road and a railway siding to provide access;

(d) widening of the existing foreshore road;

(e) all other necessary works incidental to the foregoing.

The whole of the works hereinbefore described to be subject to such modifications and deviations as may be deemed necessary or desirable by the constructing authority.