Observatory Park Weather Bureau Site Act 1923 (NSW)

OBSERVATOEY PARK WEATHER

BITREAIJ SITE ACT.

Act No. 8, 1923.

An Act to authorise the Commonwealth of A ustralia to occupy and use a certain portion of Observatory Park for the purpose of the erection and m aintenance thereon of a AVeather Bureau ; to amend the Sydney Corporation (Am endm ent) Act, 1908; and for purposes connected therew ith. [Assented to, 4 th October, 1923.	George v,
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Wales in Par l ianiei i t asseinhled. and hy t!:c a'ulhoi’i ty	sif
th(‘ same, as follows;—-

1. Tills Act may be cited as the ‘•'Observatory Park s u o n title.

Weather Bureau Site Act, 1923.” 2.

Observatory Park Weather Bureau Site Act.

^George V, 2 . Notwithstanding anything contained in the Sydney

No. 8. Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1908, or any other Act or

Part of

Observatory

law to the contrary, the Commonwealth of Australia is

J’ark to l)e

hereby authorised, subject to the provisions of this Act,

used by

Common­

to occupy, enclose, and use that portion of the Observa­

wealth.

tory Park particularly described in the Schedule to this

Act.

Land to be

used for	3. The land so described may be occupied and used
bureau.

weather for the purposes of the erection and maintenance thereon by the Commonwealth of Australia of a weatlier bureau, and for purposes incidental thereto, and the land may be occupied and used by the Commonwealth of Australia for so long only as the land is used for such purposes, and no longer.

4. This Act shall not confer any right, power, or

authority on the Commonwealth of Australia to sell, mortgage, alienate, charge, or otherwise deal with the land or any part thereof, or to part with the possession of the land or any part thereof, or to use the land or any part thereof for any purpose otlier than those mentioned in the last preceding section.

S C H E D U L E .

A ll th a t parcel of laud containin<; an area of perches or thereabouts, situated a t Observatory Hill, City of Sydney, pari.sh of St. Phillip, county of Cumberland : Commencing a t the south-we.stern corner of an area of 'J'2i perehe.s held by the Commonwealtli of A ustralia as special lease No. IS'-l, and shown upon a plan in the D epartm ent of Lands catalogued Ms. 3.j75 Sy. ; and boundeil thence b}' the western boundary of th a t area bejiring 2 degrees b m inutes links to its

north-we.stern corner ; thence by lines bearing 262 degrees links,

182 degree.s ;> ininutea 5 7 links, and 92 degrees 29 m inutes 57f\2jy links to the point of cominencenient, as shown upon a plan in the D epartm ent of Lands catalogued M.s. o.oO.o S}-., anrl b(ung p art of O bservatory P ark placed under control of the Municipal Council of Sydney by A ct No. 27 of 1908.

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