Victorian Numbered Acts

PARKS VICTORIA ACT 2018 (NO. 19 OF 2018) - SECT 102

After Part 5 of the Second Schedule to the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 insert —

" Part 6—Parks Victoria Act 2018

        13     Definitions

In this Part—

"new committee of management" means the committee of management as taken to be appointed under clause 15;

"old body" means Parks Victoria within the meaning of the Parks Victoria Act 1998 , as in force before its repeal;

"old committee of management" means the committee of management holding appointment immediately before the Parks Victoria commencement;

"Parks Victoria commencement" means the day on which the Parks Victoria Act 2018 comes into operation.

        14     Continuation of licences granted under section 17B

    (1)     A licence or an agreement under section 17B(1) granted or entered into by the Secretary or a person authorised in writing by the Secretary over land reserved under section 4, and in force immediately before the Parks Victoria commencement, is taken to continue in force—

        (a)         subject to its terms and conditions and this Act; and

        (b)     as if—

              (i)     the licence or agreement were granted or entered into by the responsible Minister rather than the Secretary or person; and

              (ii)     (if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter) any reference to the Secretary in the licence or agreement were a reference to the responsible Minister.

    (2)     Nothing in section 17B(1), as in force after the Parks Victoria commencement, affects a licence or agreement under section 17B(1) granted or entered into by a committee of management before the Parks Victoria commencement and in force immediately before that commencement.

        15     Transitional provision, committees of management

If, immediately before the Parks Victoria commencement, the old body holds an appointment as a committee of management under section 14, on the Parks Victoria commencement—

        (a)     Parks Victoria is taken to be appointed as the committee of management in substitution of the old body; and

        (b)     all rights, property and assets that, immediately before the Parks Victoria commencement, were vested in the old committee of management vest in the new committee of management; and

        (c)     all debts, liabilities and obligations of the old committee of management existing immediately before the Parks Victoria commencement become debts, liabilities and obligations of the new committee of management; and

        (d)     the new committee of management is substituted as a party to any proceedings pending in any court or tribunal to which the old committee of management was a party immediately before the Parks Victoria commencement; and

        (e)     the new committee of management is substituted as a party to any contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the old committee of management and in force immediately before the Parks Victoria commencement.".

Part 7—Amendment of Forests Act 1958