An Act to enable certain land vested in the Chief Minister by the Centenary Celebration Act (51 Victoria No 9) to be granted for the purposes of a racecourse; to amend the Centenary Celebration Act and the Centenary Park Sale Act 1904, and certain other Acts; and for other purposes connected therewith.
1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the Centenary Celebration (Amendment) Act 1934, and shall be read and construed with the Centenary Celebration Act (51 Victoria No 9).
2 Vesting of certain lands
(1) The land described in the Schedule to this Act is hereby divested from the Chief Minister and vested in His Majesty.(2) The said land shall from the commencement of this Act be deemed to be Crown lands and to be dedicated under the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913 for the like purposes for which the land comprised in a certain Crown grant dated the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and registered in the office of the Registrar-General as volume one, folio forty-six, was dedicated; and the Governor is hereby authorised to grant the land described in the said Schedule to Sir Samuel Hordern, Knight Bachelor, Richard Halifax Dangar, Esquire, and Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Lloyd Foster Rutledge, the present trustees of the land formerly comprised in the said Crown grant and now comprised in certificate of title registered volume two thousand five hundred and seventy-nine, folio sixty-six, their heirs and assigns, to be held by them upon the like trusts and subject to the like conditions and provisions as the land formerly comprised in the said Crown grant and now comprised in the said certificate of title is held and with the like powers, authorities and duties as were conferred or imposed by the said Crown grant as varied by the Australian Jockey Club Act 1873.(3) The provisions of the Australian Jockey Club Act 1873, and of any by-laws for the time being in force thereunder, shall, as from the commencement of this Act, extend to the land which by this Act is authorised to be granted.(4) Any trusts, conditions, encumbrances and dedications affecting the land described in the Schedule to this Act in the hands of the said Chief Minister are hereby revoked and annulled.
Schedule
(Section 2)
All that piece or parcel of land containing an area of 3 roods 39 perches or thereabouts situated in the Municipality of Randwick, Parish of Alexandria, County of Cumberland, being part of the land described in the Schedule to the Centenary Park Sale Act 1904: Commencing at the north-eastern corner of an area of 4 acres 1 rood 3½ perches of land resumed for tramway purposes on the 11th October, 1911, and now comprised in Certificate of Title registered Volume 2299, Folio 129, and bounded thence on the south by part of the northern boundary of Randwick Racecourse, being a line bearing 89 degrees 5 minutes for 838 and 21/100 links to the south-western side of Alison-road, on the north-east by that side of that road being lines successively bearing 272 degrees 51 minutes for 35 and 5/10 links and 285 degrees 55 minutes for 848 and 86/100 links and 287 degrees 55 minutes for 1 and 8/10 links, on the west by lines successively bearing 166 degrees 9 minutes for 54 and 63/100 links and 179 degrees 19 minutes 30 seconds for 195 and 45/100 links to the point of commencement,—as shown in plan catalogued Ms. 8375 Sy. in the Department of Lands.