Port Kembla Harbour Act 1898 (NSW)

Act No. 34, 1898.

Port Kemhla Harbour.

Act No. 34, 1898. ’

X ' Act to saiictioii the construction of a deep- p.vrt̂kemm ,a

water liarhonr at Port Kemhla, and to provide	—
for Icvyini^- wharfage rates on goods, mer- elmndise, packages, and articles landed at or laden from any wharf or jetty witliin the said harl)our. [23rd Dcccmitrr, 1898.]

TTTHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of tlie Public, Works Proami>ic.

Act of 1888, the Legislative Assembly did, by resolution, declare that it was expedient that a certain worlc, namely, the con­ struction of a Deep-water Harbour at Port Kembla, as referred by the said Assembly to the Ihirliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, should be carried out by constructing the eastern breakwater, as recommended by the said Committee: And whereas on the passing of the said resolution a statutory duty was by the said Act imposed on the Secretary for Public Works to introduce a Bill into the said Assembly to sanction the carrying out of the said work: And whereas it is desirable to provide for levying wharfage rates on goods landed at or laden from any wharf or jetty within the said harbour: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent IMajesty, by and with the advice and 'consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South AVales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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1. The carrying out of the said work (more particularly described Work smu-tioned.

in the Schedule to this Act) is hereby sanctioned; and the Secretary for Public AVorks, or the Member of the Executive Council for the time being performing the duties of the said Secretary, is hereby authorised to undertake and carry out the said work subjecd to the provisions of this Act, and for that purpose shall be, and shall have the powers and duties of, a Constructing Authority within the meaning of the Public AAku'ks Act of 1888: Ih'ovided that the cai'rying out of the said work shall not be commenced until all private lands, jetties, and other works, required in connection with the said work, have been acquired under a satisfactory arrangement with the owners of such lands, jetties, and works.

2. The plan of the said work is the plan marked “ Port Kembla,” PUm of wovk.

signed by the Secretary for Public Works and countersigned by the Engineer-in-Chief lor Public Works, and deposited in the public office of the said Secretary.

3. The cost of carrying out the said work, estimated at two Costs, iiow to bo

hundred thousand pounds, may be defrayed from such Loan AMtes as

may

Act Xo. 35, 1898.

{Consolidated Fund) Apjyropriation.

may hereafter be applicable to that purpose, and shall not under any circumstances exceed the estimated cost by more than ten per centum.

Wharfage ra 'cs !o

4. Inward and outward wharfage rat(!S, at the respective rates prescribed in the Wharfage and Tonnage Rades Act of 1880 and in the Second Schedule thereto, shall be levied under that Act upon all goods, merchandise, packages, and articles landed on and laden from any wharf or jetty now constructed, or hereafter to bo constructed, within the deep­ water harbour at Port Ivcmbla. And, notwithstanding section twelve of the said Act, the said rates shall not be abolished or reduced.

be levied.

S'io;-t lit! '. 5. This Act may be cited as the “ Port Kembla Harbour Act,

1898.”

SCHEDULE. ■

Tlic cor..‘3.‘;ruction of a brcck'.rct.'ir coai'nencing on tlio foreshore near the eastern oxti'cinity of Port Kembla Br^r and di.stant about eKht hundred feet in an east south­ easterly direction from the northern extremity of Mount Kembla Coal Company’s coal shipping jetty, and extending rlicnce in a northerly direction in a curved line a distance of two thousand eight hundred feet—being tinted red on deposited plan—and the necessary shipping appliances.