This legislation has been repealed.
Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Works etc. vested in Board460. Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Works etc. vested in Board4 (1) On the eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and ninety-one- All lands described or specified in Parts one two three and four of the Third Schedule to the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1915 and all lands vested in the Board of Land and Works and comprised in the deeds or documents of title of which particulars are set forth in Part five of the Third Schedule to the said Act and the inheritance of all such lands in fee and all interest rights and benefits and advantages appurtenant to connected with or relating to all or any of such lands and the reservoirs tramways mains and other works buildings plant and machinery thereon, and all mains pipes stand-pipes branches and all other works (other than service pipes laid at the cost of any owner or occupier of private lands), and all personal property whatever connected therewith and used or intended to be used for the purposes of the supply of water to the inhabitants of the metropolis, all of which are hereinafter referred to as the "water supply works"; and All sewers and drains situate within the metropolis and vested in the said Board of Land and Works, and all reservoirs sluices engines and other works constructed and placed either above or under ground by the said Board of Land and Works for the purpose of clearing cleansing and emptying such sewers and drains, all of which are hereinafter referred to as the "sewerage works"; and All the bed soil and banks of the River Yarra Yarra and of all other public rivers creeks and watercourses within the metropolis (except so much thereof as is vested in the Port of Melbourne Authority, the Public Transport Corporation or the Corporation of the city of Melbourne)- shall without any conveyance assignment or transfer be deemed to have been and to have become vested in the Board upon trust for the purposes respectively of supplying water to the inhabitants of the metropolis of providing for the sewerage and drainage of the metropolis and the commerce and recreation of the inhabitants of the metropolis, but subject to the estate and interest of any person existing therein on the date aforesaid and to the right of Her Majesty to resume possession at any time without payment of compensation of any land required for any public purpose with the consent of Parliament or for public highways: Provided that the Board may, with the approval of the Governor in Council given on the recommendation of the Minister after consultation with the Minister administering the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978, surrender to the Crown any land vested as aforesaid in the Board. (2) This section shall have effect as if the words "Provided that where any proclaimed street or road is within the boundaries hereinbefore described such street or road shall be deemed to be excluded therefrom" were omitted from Part three of the Third Schedule to the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1915. * * * * *