New South Wales Grant (Flood Mitigation) Act 1973

No. 28 of 1973

AN ACT

To amend section 3 of the New South Wales Grant (Flood Mitigation) Act 1971.

[Assented to 15 May 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Austral follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1)  This Act may be cited as the New South Wales Grant (Flood Mitigation) Act 1973.

(2)  The New South Wales Grant (Flood Mitigation) Act 1971, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the New South Wales Grant (Flood Mitigation) Act 1971–1973.

Commencement.

2.  This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Interpretation.

3.  Section 3 of the New South Wales Grant (Flood Mitigation) Act 1971 is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of “prescribed river” and substituting the following definition:—

“‘prescribed river’ means—

(a) any of the following rivers, namely, Bellinger, Clarence, Hastings, Hawkesbury, Hunter, Macleay, Manning, Moruya, Richmond. Shoalhaven and Tweed;

(b) any of the following creeks, namely, Cudgen, Cudgera and Mooball; and

(c) any watercourse the waters of which flow into or out of a river named in paragraph (a) or a creek named in paragraph (b);”.