Queensland Consolidated Acts

BRISBANE TRADES HALL MANAGEMENT ACT 1984 - SECT Preamble

Preamble

Whereas—

(a) certain pieces of land were granted by deeds of grant to trustees in 1919 and 1921 respectively and, pursuant to nominations of trustees in those same years, the trustees in each case transferred all their estate and interest in the land to themselves as trustees;

(b) under the schedule of trusts the lands were held by the trustees for the erection thereon of buildings to be used for a trades and labour hall and for no other purpose whatsoever;

(c) a trades and labour hall was erected thereon;

(d) the Trades and Labour Hall Management Act 1934 , amongst other things—

(i) empower the Governor in Council, in the event of the death, resignation or other removal from office of the trustees or any of them, to appoint new trustees or a new trustee; and

(ii) provide for the control and management of the trades and labour hall by the ‘board of management’ as therein defined;

(e) the Trades and Labour Council, as the said board of management, is desirous of acquiring land and the improvements thereon situated at Peel Street, South Brisbane, to be used in part as the Brisbane trades hall and to dispose of the lands and improvements thereon presently constituting the trades and labour hall;

(f) in the circumstances, it is expedient that the trustees should be authorised to sell the said lands and the building presently constituting the trades and labour hall thereon freed and discharged from the trusts to which they are subject and to apply the proceeds for the purposes hereinafter set forth and that they should be authorised to acquire the lands the building thereon at Peel Street, South Brisbane referred to as the Peel Street property to be held subject to like trusts and to use such building in part as the Brisbane trades hall in place of the trades and labour hall, and that the sale and acquisition should be subject to and in accordance with the provisions hereinafter set forth.