An Act to sanction and to provide for the carrying out of works for the Evans Head Harbour; to validate certain matters; and for purposes connected therewith.
1 Name of Act and commencement
(1) This Act may be cited as the Evans Head Harbour Works Act 1960.(2) This Act shall be deemed to have commenced upon the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixty.
2 Work sanctioned
(1)(a) The carrying out of the work described in the Schedule to this Act is hereby sanctioned.(b) The said work shall be deemed to be an authorised work within the meaning of the Public 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.
3 The plan
The plan of the said work is the plan marked “Evans Head 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.
4 Estimated cost
The cost of carrying out the said work (exclusive of land resumptions) is estimated at one hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds and such estimated cost shall not, under any circumstances, be exceeded by more than ten per centum.
Schedule
(Section 2)
Works for the Evans Head Harbour comprising:1 The construction of a breakwater on the southern side of the Evans River entrance extending in a north-easterly direction a distance of approximately six hundred and fifty feet from the existing foreshore.
2 The construction of a breakwater on the northern side of the Evans River entrance extending in a north-easterly direction a distance of approximately eight hundred and fifty feet from the existing foreshore.
3 The construction of a training wall on the northern side of the Evans River for a length of approximately eight hundred and sixty feet.
4 Other associated works as may be 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.