An Act to enable certain land vested in the Chief Minister by the Centenary Celebration Act (51 Victoria Number 9) to be granted for the purposes of a racecourse; to amend the Centenary Celebration Act, 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 1959 and shall be read and construed with the Centenary Celebration Act (51 Victoria Number 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 Her 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 the persons who at the date of such grant are the 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, as amended by subsequent Acts.(3) The provisions of the Australian Jockey Club Act 1873, as amended by subsequent Acts, 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 by admeasurement 12½ perches be the same more or less 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 at Randwick and being portion 1588 shewn on plan catalogued C7949.2030 in the Department of Lands Sydney Commencing on the south-western side of Alison Road at the north-western corner of an area of 3 roods 39 perches shewn on plan catalogued Ms 8375 Sy and bounded thence on the north-east by that road bearing 287 degrees 55 minutes 1 chain on the south-west by a line bearing 149 degrees 56 minutes 40 seconds 2 chains 18.14 links and on the east and again on the north-east by lines dividing this land from the aforesaid area of 3 roods 39 perches bearing 359 degrees 24 minutes 1 chain 5 links and 346 degrees 14 minutes 54.63 links respectively to the point of commencement.