Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsPreamble
WHEREAS by an Order in Council of 9 June 1873 certain land at East Melbourne in the city of Melbourne known as Yarra Park was permanently reserved as a site for a public park and by Crown Grant dated 13 June 1873 [1] entered in the Register Book of the Office of Titles in volume 600 folium 119902 was vested in the Minister of Lands and the corporation of the city of Melbourne:
AND WHEREAS by an Order in Council of 9 October 1917 [2] the corporation of the city of Melbourne was appointed as committee of management of the land:
AND WHEREAS the land delineated and shown hatched on the plan in the Schedule is part of the said land and is used for the purposes of sport and recreation:
AND WHEREAS it is expedient to authorize the corporation of the city of Melbourne as committee of management to grant leases of the land delineated and shown hatched on the plan in the Schedule:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Queen'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):
Pt 1 (Heading) inserted by No. 89/2009 s. 3.