Legislation, In force, New South Wales
New South Wales: Victorian Coal-mining Company's Extension Act of 1888 51 Vic (NSW)
An Act to authorize the construction and maintenance of a line of railway from land at Mount Kembla to the sea coast at Port Kembla near Red Point near Wollongong," and Thomas Saywell, of Sydney, merchant, his heirs and assigns trading as the Victorian Coal-mining Company were thereby authorized to make, construct, and maintain a railway from lands belonging to the said Company through the lands and in the direction described in the First Schedule to the said Act.
12 dL' VIC. 1888.
Victorian Coal-mining Company's Extension.
Vieroxrss Corr Any Act to extend the provisions of the " Vic-
MINING COMPANY'S
EXTENSION. torian Coal-mining Company's Act of
1884." [27th April, 1888.]
Preamble. TLEREAS an Act was passed on the twenty-ninth day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, in the forty-
cighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled
« An Act to authorize the construction and maintenance of a line of
railway from land at Mount Kembla to the sea coast at Port Kembla
near Red Point near Wollongong," and Thomas Saywell, of Sydney,
merchant, his heirs and assigns trading as the Victorian Coal-mining
Company were thereby authorized to make, construct, and maintain
a railway from lands belonging to the said Company through the lands
and in the direction described in the First Schedule to the said Act.
And whereas it was provided by the First Section of the said Act that
the said railway should be constructed and brought into use within
the term of three years from the passing of the said Act, and that in
default thereof, or if after its completion, the said railway should cease
to be used for three years continuously, all the said lands and all the
Company's interest and estate therein should revert without any
conveyance to the original owners thereof, their heirs and assigns.
And whereas it has been found inexpedient and impracticable for the
said Company to construct and bring into use the said railway within
the said period of three years. And whereas the said period of three
years has now expired, and it is desirable to continue the provisions of
the said Act. Be it therefore enacted by the Quecn'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 :—
Extension of ot 1. The provisions of the ' Victorian Coal-mining Company's Act
nilvay. Of 1884," empowering the said Company to make and construct a rail-
way from lands belonging to the said Company through the lands
mentioned in the First Section of the said Act, and more particularly
described in the First Schedule thereto shall be and arc hereby extended,
and shall continue and remain in force subject to the proviso in the
Second Section herein contained.
Lands to become and 2. The lands vested by the said Act in the said Company, and
the Company. ™ all the said Company's interest and estate therein shall, notwithstanding
that the said railway has not been constructed and brought into use
within the period in the said Act limited become and continue to be
vested in the said Company, subject to the provisions of the said Act;
Railway to becom- provided that the said railway shall be constructed and brought into
pleted and Prought use within the period of three years from the passing of this Act, and
years, that in default thereof, or if after its completion the said railway shall
cease to be used continuously for three years the said lands and all the
said Company's interest and estate therein shall revert without any
conveyance to the original owners thereof, their heirs and assigns.
Short title. 3. This Act may be cited as the " Victorian Coal-mining
Company's Extension Act of 1888."
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