Tweed Heads Harbour Works Act 1961 (NSW)

TWEED HEADS HARBOUR WORKS ACT.

Act No. 46, 1961.

An Act to sanction and to provide for the carrying out EUzabethiL

of works for the Tweed Heads Harbour; and^®-^^^^

for purposes connected therewith.	[Assented to.
29th November, 1961.]

T>E 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 : —

1.     This Act may be cited as the “Tweed Heads Harbour

Works Act, 1961”. '

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No. 46,1961 2. (1) (a) The carrying out of the work described in

■ the Schedule to this Act is hereby sanctioned,

sanctioned.

(b) The said work shall be deemed to be an authorised work within the meaning of the Publie Works Act, 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts.

(c) The Minister for Public Works is empowered to carry out the said work and shall 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 proper.

(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 subsection 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.

The plan. 3.

The plan of the said work is the plan marked “Tweed Heads Harbour Works” signed by the Minister for Public Works and countersigned by the Director of Public Works and deposited in the public office of the said Minister.

Estimated 4.

The cost of carrying out the said work (exclusive of land resumptions) is estimated at three hundred and ninety thousand pounds and such estimated cost shall not, under any circumstances, be exceeded by more than ten per centum.

cost.

SCHEDULE.

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SCHEDULE. No. 46,1961

Works for the Tweed Heads Harbour comprising;—• Sec. 2.

(1) The construction of a breakwater on the northern side of the Tweed River entrance extending in an easterly direction for a distance of approximately one thousand five hundred and fifty feet from the existing foreshore.

(2) The construction of a breakwater on the southern side of the Tweed River entrance extending in an easterly direction for a distance of approximately one thousand four hundred feet from the existing foreshore.

(3) Other incidental works as deemed necessary or desirable

by the constructing authority.

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