Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (Victoria) Act 1971 (Vic)

Version No. 001

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation

(Victoria) Act 1971

Act No. 8098/1971

Version as at 12 September 1997

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page

1.	Short title	1
2.	Definitions	1
3.	As to status of Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation under
law of the State	2
4.	Functions and powers of the Corporation	2

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NOTES	4
1. General Information	4
2. Table of Amendments	5
3. Explanatory Details	6

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Version No. 001

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation
(Victoria) Act 1971

Act No. 8098/1971

Version as at 12 September 1997

An Act relating to the Performance of Work within Victoria by
the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (Victoria) Act 1971.

2. Definitions

In this Act unless inconsistent with the context or
subject-matter—

"the Commonwealth Act" means the Act of the

Commonwealth entitled the Snowy (No. 2) 1970, and, if the first-mentioned Act has been further amended before, or is further amended after, the passing of this Act, means that first-mentioned Act as in force as amended at the material time;

Mountains Engineering Corporation Act
1970, as amended by the Act of the
Commonwealth entitled the Snowy

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"the Corporation" means the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation established by the Commonwealth Act.

3.  As to status of Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation under law of the State

(1) The Corporation shall be deemed to be and at all times since the passing of the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Act 1970 of the

Commonwealth to have been for all purposes of the law of the State—

(a) a corporation sole by the name Snowy

Mountains Engineering Corporation with
perpetual succession and an official seal; and

(b) capable in its corporate name of acquiring, holding, leasing and disposing of real and personal property and of suing and being sued.

(2) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially

shall take judicial notice of the official seal of the presume that it was duly affixed.

4. Functions and powers of the Corporation

(1) Where an exercise by the Corporation of a

function specified in sub-section (1) of section 17
of the Commonwealth Act is not authorized by
that Act by reason of the provisions of sub-section
(2) of that section or by reason of that Act being
required to be read and construed so as not to
exceed the legislative power of the Parliament of
the Commonwealth, that exercise of that function
by the Corporation is, to the extent that the
legislative power of the Parliament of the State

permits, authorized by this Act.

(2) The authority to exercise functions conferred on

the Corporation by this Act does not extend to

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authorize an exercise of a function unless
approval is given to that exercise of the function
in accordance with sub-sections (3), (4) and (5) of

section 17 of the Commonwealth Act.

(3) In relation to the exercise of a function under the authority conferred on it by this Act the conferred on it by the Commonwealth Act as if it were exercising the function under the authority conferred on it by that Act.

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1.  General Information

The Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (Victoria) Act 1971 was assented to on 27 April 1971 and came into operation on 27 April 1971.

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2.  Table of Amendments

There are no amendments made to the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (Victoria) Act 1971 by Acts and subordinate instruments.

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3. Explanatory Details
No entries at date of publication.

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