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Melbourne Cricket Ground Act 1951
Act No. 5614/1951
Version as at 2 March 1998
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1.
Short title, construction and citation
2.
Power to Trustees to prepare plans for additional
accommodation
3.
Power to Governor in Council to revoke as to part Order in
Council and Crown grants relating to park land
4.
Re-definition of land in Fifth Schedule to the Principal Act
5.
Authority and direction to Registrar of Titles to make
necessary cancellations and entries
6.
No liability to attach to Crown
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SCHEDULE
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1. General Information
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2. Table of Amendments
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3. Explanatory Details
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Version No. 001
Melbourne Cricket Ground Act 1951
Act No. 5614/1951
Version as at 2 March 1998
An Act relating to a Ground known as the Melbourne Cricket
Ground.
Preamble
WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the ninth
day of December One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one certain land known as the Melbourne
Cricket Ground was pursuant to the provisions of
an Act of the Parliament of Victoria numbered
CXVII permanently reserved as a metropolitan
cricket ground:
AND WHEREAS by a Crown grant bearing date
the seventeenth day of June One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two and enrolled in the Office of
the Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Colony
of Victoria in the Register of Miscellaneous Grants
number 2 folium 12, in order to promote the
recreation and amusement of the people and in
order to provide a site or place for playing at
cricket within the city of Melbourne the said land
was granted to the persons named therein upon
trust inter alia that the said land and the buildings
thereon be at all times maintained and used as and
for a place for playing at cricket and for
conveniences connected therewith under and in
accordance with such regulations as to the
admission of the public and otherwise as therein
appears:
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Government
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13.6.1873
p. 1059.
AND WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the
ninth day of June One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three certain lands were pursuant to the
Land Act 1869 permanently reserved as a site for
a public park:
AND WHEREAS by a Crown grant bearing date
the thirteenth day of June One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three and entered in the
register book of the Office of Titles volume 600
folium 119902 the said lands and the buildings for
the time being thereon were granted to the Board
of Land and Works and the mayor aldermen
councillors and citizens of the city of Melbourne
upon trust to be at all times thereafter maintained
and used as and for a public park and offices and
conveniences connected therewith and for no other
purpose whatsoever:
No. 4149.
AND WHEREAS certain adjustments to the
boundaries of the hereinbefore recited lands were
made by the Melbourne Cricket Ground Act
1933:
AND WHEREAS certain further provision with
respect to the use and management of the said
Melbourne Cricket Ground was made by the said
Act:
AND WHEREAS the accommodation provided for
the public at the said ground is not adequate and in
order to provide adequate accommodation for the
public it is expedient to make further adjustments
to the boundaries of the hereinbefore recited lands
and to make other provision as hereinafter enacted:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King's Most
Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria
in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of
the same as follows (that is to say):
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1. Short title, construction and citation
This Act may be cited as the Melbourne Cricket
Ground Act 1951 and shall be read and construed
as one with the Melbourne Cricket Ground Act
1933 (hereinafter called the Principal Act) which
Act and this Act may be cited together as the
Melbourne Cricket Ground Acts.
2. Power to Trustees to prepare plans for additional
accommodation
(1) The Trustees are hereby authorized to prepare and
submit to the Commissioner of Crown Lands and
Survey plans for the provision of additional
accommodation at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
involving the use of land contiguous to the said
Ground.
(2) The plans so submitted by the Trustees to the
Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey shall
be prepared by qualified architects and shall be
accompanied by a plan of survey prepared by a
licensed surveyor showing the land required for
the purposes of such plans and the area of such
land.
(3) If the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey
is satisfied that the land required for such
additional accommodation is substantially the land
described in the Schedule to this Act and does not
involve the use of more than two acres of such
contiguous land he may recommend to the
Governor in Council that such land be made
available for the purpose of providing such
additional accommodation.
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3. Power to Governor in Council to revoke as to part
Order in Council and Crown grants relating to park
land
(1) The Governor in Council may on receiving such
recommendation by proclamation published in the
Government Gazette so far only as relates to so
much of the land described in the Second
Schedule to the Principal Act as is required for
such additional accommodation revoke and make
null and void—
(a) the hereinbefore recited Order in Council of
the ninth day of June One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three; and
(b) the hereinbefore recited Crown grant bearing
date the thirteenth day of June One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.
(2) As from the date of such proclamation the lands
described therein shall be revested in His Majesty
freed and discharged from all encumbrances trusts
limitations and restrictions whatsoever and shall
be deemed and be dealt with as unalienated land
of the Crown.
4. Re-definition of land in Fifth Schedule to the
Principal Act
Government
Gazettes
24.1.34 p. 114;
28.2.34 p. 531.
It is hereby declared that the Order in Council of
the twentieth day of February One thousand nine
hundred and thirty-four and the Crown grant dated
the fourth day of December One thousand nine
hundred and thirty-three and entered in the
register book in the Office of Titles volume 5925
folium 1184828 shall be deemed and taken for all
purposes to relate also to the land described in any
proclamation made under this Act.
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5. Authority and direction to Registrar of Titles to
make necessary cancellations and entries
The Registrar of Titles is hereby authorized and
directed to make all such cancellations of or
entries upon any Crown grant or duplicate Crown
grant or other document as may be necessary or
expedient in consequence of this Act and the
holder of any such duplicate Crown grant or other
document shall produce the same to the Registrar
of Titles for such purpose.
6. No liability to attach to Crown
No person or body of persons corporate or
unincorporate shall be entitled to receive or shall
receive from His Majesty any money or
consideration or compensation in respect of or in
any manner whatsoever arising out of any act
matter or thing under this Act.
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SCHEDULE
Land being portion of the land permanently reserved as a site for a Public
Park by Order in Council of the 9th June, 1873 (see Government Gazette of
13th June, 1873, page 1059) and described in Crown Grant entered in the
Register Book of the Office of Titles, Volume 600, Folium 119902.
One acre three roods more or less, City of Melbourne, Parish of Melbourne
North, County of Bourke: Commencing at a point bearing N. 89° 15' E.
thirteen chains five links, S. 0° 48' E. nine chains eighty links, and
S. 13° 1' E. two chains sixty-nine and seven-tenths links from the junction of
the east side of Jolimont-road and the south side of Wellington-parade south;
bounded thence by lines bearing N. 63° 11' E. six chains twenty-seven links,
N. 85° 13' E. three chains fourteen links, S. 78° 41' E. one chain fifty and
five-tenths links, S. 66° 41' E. one chain sixty-five links, S. 52° 44' E. one
chain sixty-one links and S. 15° 33' E. one chain forty-one links; by the
existing reserve bearing N. 70° 2' W. one chain twelve links, north-westerly
sixty-five and five-tenths links in an arc of a circle with centre lying three
chains forty-eight and seven-tenths links south-westerly and with chord
bearing N. 47° 11' W. sixty-five and four-tenths links, north-westerly ninetyeight links in an arc of a circle with centre lying seven chains fifty-one and
eight-tenths links south-westerly and with chord bearing N. 56° 18' W.
ninety-seven and nine-tenths links, N. 64° 35' W. sixty-one and one-tenth
links, N. 70° 15' W. sixty-two and seven-tenths links, N. 76° 12' W. sixty-two
and seven-tenths links, N. 81° 3' W. sixty-two and seven-tenths links,
N. 86° 46' W. sixty-two and seven-tenths links, S. 88° 48' W. sixty-two and
seven-tenths links, S. 82° 18' W. sixty-two and eight-tenths links,
S. 77° 35' W. sixty-one links, south-westerly one chain thirty-five and fivetenths links in an arc of a circle with centre lying six chains thirty-four links
south-easterly and with chord bearing S. 68° 6' W. one chain thirty-five and
four-tenths links, N. 67° 47' W. sixty-one and seven-tenths links,
S. 88° 46' W. eighty-seven links, S. 43° 28' W. two chains fifty-eight and
four-tenths links, N. 78° 13' W. eighty-five links, S. 76° 22' W. forty-one and
three-tenths links, southerly four chains eleven and nine-tenths links in an arc
of a circle with centre lying ten chains easterly and with chord bearing
S. 10° 10' W. four chains nine links, S. 51° 30' E. two chains twenty-nine and
five-tenths links, S. 29° 49' E. ninety-nine links, and S. 39° 10' E. one chain
twenty-four links; and thence by lines bearing N. 46° 39' W. five chains two
and three-tenths links, N. 4° 51' E. two chains thirteen links and N. 17° 7' E.
two chains eighteen and four-tenths links to the point of commencement.
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ENDNOTES
1. General Information
The Melbourne Cricket Ground Act 1951 was assented to on 18 December
1951 and came into operation on 18 December 1951.
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2. Table of Amendments
There are no amendments made to the Melbourne Cricket Ground Act
1951 by Acts and subordinate instruments.
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No entries at date of publication.
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