This
Indenture dated in accordance with the Land Act
1958 the ....... day of ...... One thousand nine hundred and
....... and made between His Excellency the Governor of the State of Victoria
and its dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia by and with the advice
of the Executive Council of the said State (hereinafter called "the Governor
in Council") in the name and on behalf of HER
MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II of the one part and BEAUMARIS
MOTOR YACHT SQUADRON CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED of Foreshore opposite
Cromer Road Beaumaris (hereinafter called "the lessee") of the other
part WHEREAS the right to this lease was offered for sale by auction
notice of which was duly given and the lessee having offered the highest
rent thereat is entitled to this lease AND WHEREAS notice of the
application for this lease and of the purpose and term for which it is
granted has been published in four consecutive ordinary numbers of the
Government Gazette at least one month before the date thereof AND
WHEREAS in granting this lease under the powers contained in Division 9
of Part 1. of the Land Act 1958 the Governor in Council has thought
fit that it shall be subject to the covenants and conditions and to the
payment of the rent hereinafter contained and reserved NOW THIS INDENTURE
WITNESSETH as follows:-
1. In consideration of the rent hereinafter reserved and of the covenants
conditions and provisions hereinafter contained and on the part of the
lessee to be performed and observed the Governor in Council DOTH HEREBY
GRANT AND DEMISE unto the lessee the surface and down to a depth of fifteen
metres below the surface of All that piece of land being Allotment forty-nine
G in the Parish of Moorabbin County of Bourke shown with the measurements
and abuttals thereof in the map drawn in the margin of these presents and
therein coloured yellow and red, EXCEPTING AND RESERVING unto Her Said
Majesty -
(a) all gold silver and minerals as defined
in the Mines Act 1958 in upon or under and within the boundaries of the
said land;
(b) free liberty and authority for her and
her servants agents lessees licensees and assigns at all times hereafter
to enter upon the said land and to search and mine for therein and to extract
and remove therefrom gold silver and minerals as aforesaid and for the
purposes aforesaid to sink shafts make drives erect machinery and carry
on works and do any other things which may be necessary or usual in mining
and for getting the said gold silver and minerals and the working of all
mines seams lodes and deposits containing gold silver and minerals in upon
and under the said land;
(c) (i) all uranium and thorium within the
meaning of the Mines Act 1958 and petroleum within the meaning of the Petroleum
Act 1958 (hereinafter called "the reserved minerals");
(ii) rights
of access for the purpose of searching for and obtaining the reserved minerals
in any part of the said land
(iii) rights
for access and for pipe-lines works or other purposes necessary for obtaining
and conveying on and from the said land any of the reserved minerals which
is obtained in any part of the said land.
(d) the ownership of any fossil or fossils
and any fossil beds which may at present exist or be discovered subsequently
in, on or under the said land;
(e) the right for Her Majesty or her
duly authorised representatives servants or agents to enter into and on
to the said land for the purpose of removing any fossil or fossils which
may be found in on or under the said land or any other Crown
land adjacent thereto.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the demised premises unto the lessee from the date
hereof for the term of twenty-one years To the intent that the demised
premises shall be used as a site for amusement and recreation (yacht club
and ancillary services) and unless with the prior consent of the Minister
for Lands (hereinafter called "the Minister") for no other purpose whatsoever
YIELDING AND PAYING therefor -
(a) during the first five ten years of the said term
the yearly rent of Five hundred dollars by equal quarterly
payments in advance on the ......day of .................the
day of ................ in each year the first payment being due on the
date hereof; and
(b) during the residue of the said term the yearly re-appraised rents
fixed by the responsible Minister of the Crown for the time being administering
the Land Acts pursuant to sub-section (4) of section 134 of the Land Act
1958 by equal quarterly payments in advance
on the days aforesaid in each year.
2. The lessee to the intent that the obligations may continue throughout
the said term HEREBY COVENANTS with Her said Majesty that the lessee will
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(a) pay the rent hereby reserved upon the days hereinbefore appointed
for the payment thereof free from all deductions whatsoever;
(b) pay all taxes rates duties charges assessments impositions and
outgoings and bear and discharge all obligations whether under statute
or otherwise now or hereafter imposed upon or in respect of the demised
premises or upon either the owner or occupier or partly upon each in respect
of the demised premises or any part thereof or the rent hereby reserved;
(c) use the demised premises as a site for amusement and recreation
(yacht club and ancillary services) and (unless with the prior consent
of the Minister) for no other purpose whatsoever;
(d) erect and construct on the said land buliding and erections and
any extensions renewals and improvements of the buildings and erections
for the time being situate on the said land only of such materials and
according to such plans specifications and designs as shall be first approved
by the Minister under his hand or in writing by his agent duly authorized
in that behalf;
(e) as often as is necessary and to the satisfaction of the Minister
without being thereunto required repair maintain and keep in good order
and substantial repair and condition all buildings erections extensions
and improvements for the time being on the said land;
(f) subject to any notice adopt such sanitary measures as the Minister
may from time to time approve or require and carry out all requirements
of the local sewerage authority;
(g) permit Her said Majesty by her servants or agents or the servants
and officers of the Minister at all reasonable times to enter upon and
examine the state and condition of the demised premises and will repair
and make good all defects specified by written notice given to the lessee
by Her said Majesty or by the Minister within one calendar month after
service of the notice and if the lessee shall fail to so repair and make
good those defects it shall from time to time be lawful for the Minister
(but without prejudice in any way to the right of re-entry hereinafter
contained) by his officers agents servants and workmen to enter upon the
demised premises and do all works necessary for making good the said defects
at the expense of the lessee and the cost thereof (in case the same shall
not be repaid by the lessee within one calendar month after a notice in
writing in that behalf shall have been given to the lessee by the Minister)
shall be a debt due by the lessee to Her said Majesty and recoverable as
rent due and payable under these presents;
(h) not create or permit any nuisance on the demised premises or do
or suffer to be done any act matter or thing which shall be or may grow
to the annoyance or disturbance of the owners or occupiers of adjoining
lands or premises;
(i) not permit to be displayed or placed on or in the demised premises
or on any fence thereon or bounding any part thereof in such a manner as
to be seen or heard outside the demised premises any medium or contrivance
intended to draw public attention to any trade calling business wares or
merchandise whatsoever or any other sign poster or advertisement visible
or vocal PROVIDED however the the Minister may permit the lessee to place
or exhibit in such form and position as he may approve any sign poster
or advertisement which refers solely to the purpose for which this lease
has been granted by notwithstanding that permission as aforesaid may have
been granted the Minister may at any subsequent time by notice in writing
require the lessee to discontinue to use any place for or mode of advertising
which in his opinion has ceased to be suitable or has become unsightly
or objectionable and the lessee shall forthwith on receipt of such notice
comply therewith;
(j) not assign sublet set over mortgage charge or otherwise part with
or encumber this lease or the demised premises or any part thereof without
the prior consent of the Minister under his hand and the provisions of
Section 144 of the Property Law Act 1958 are hereby negatived and
excluded;
(k) at the expiration or sooner determination of the said term yield
up the demised premises in good order and condition; and
(l) observe perform and fulfil the covenants conditions and provisions
contained in the schedule hereto;
(m) sell petroleum and petroleum based products only to persons who
are members of the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Co-operative Limited;
(n) indemnify and keep indemnified Her said Majesty the Minister the
Port Officer in Victoria and their successors and Her and their officers
servants agents contractors and workmen against any liablity in respect
of actions proceedings claims or demands for personal injury to or death
of any person or for any damage whatsoever to any property arising out
of the use of the demised premises;
(o) insure and keep insured to an amount of Two hundred thousand dollars
and with an insurer approved by the Minister against all liability of the
lessee to Her Majesty the Minister and the Port Officer in Victoria under
the indemnity aforesaid and if required produce to the Minister evidence
to his satisfaction that the insurance has been taken out and kept in full
force and effect;
(p) take the said land nothwithstanding the impediment that legal road
access thereto has not been provided or implied by this lease and the lessee
agrees to indemnify Her said Majesty against the expenses of acquiring
or providing an easement of way to the said land or any part thereof;
(q) allow members of the general public on
foot the full and free right and liberty at all times hereafter to go pass
and repass without hindrance through over and along all or any part of
the land coloured red;and
(r) not make cause or permit to be made any excavations in on or under
the said land without the prior consent in writing of the Minister or his
duly authorized representative upon such conditions as the Minister may
stipulate.
3. PROVIDED ALWAYS and it is hereby agreed as follows: -
(a) that these presents are upon this express condition that in any
of the events following -
(i) if the lessee shall
at any time fail to use the demised premises bona fide for the purposes
aforesaid or shall use the same for any purpose not hereinbefore mentioned;
(ii) if any part of the
rent hereby reserved shall be in arrear for two weeks whether formally
demanded or not;
(iii) if interest as provided
by section 228 of the Land Act 1958 has become due on any rent in
arrear and is not paid at the time prescribed for payment thereof;
(iv) if there shall be a
breach or non-observance by the lessee of any of the covenants conditions
or provisions of this lease;
(v) if the lessee being
a corporation any proceedings to be taken to wind up the affairs of the
lessee (other than by way of reconstruction); it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council to declare this lease void and forfeited and thereupon
Her said Majesty by her authorized agents or officers may enter into and
upon the demised premises and repossess and enjoy the same as fully and
effectually as if these presents had not been made and executed and for
the purpose of so doing it shall be lawful for Her said Majesty by her
authorized agents or officers without any demand whatsoever to enter upon
the demised premises and for ever to expel and remove therefrom the lessee
and all persons claiming from through or under the lessee without any legal
process whatsoever and as effectually as any sheriff might do in case Her
said Majesty had obtained judgment for recovery of possession thereof and
a writ of possession or other process had issued on the judgment directed
to the sheriff in due form of law and in case of entry as aforesaid and
any proceedings being taken in respect thereof by any person whomsoever
the defendants to the proceedings may plead leave and licence in bar thereof
and these presents shall be conclusive evidence that all conditions necessary
to entitle the Governor in Council to declare this lease void and forfeited
were fulfilled and that this lease had been declared void and forfeited
as hereinbefore provided and of the leave and licence of the lessee and
all persons claiming from through or under the lessee to Her said Majesty
and her authorized agents or officers for the entry or trespass or other
matter complained of in the said proceedings; |