Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00223:section:5:p2
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Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 2/5)
Character Range: 17735–20487

the high water mark on the left bank of Sussex Inlet before mentioned; and thence in a general northerly direction by that high water mark to the commencing point.

2. This Agreement shall not in any way be binding unless and until it is approved by the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and of the State, and legislation is passed enabling the Commonwealth and the State to effect the surrender and acceptance of the territory.

3. The Commonwealth shall account to the State for any purchase money received by the Commonwealth in respect of any grant of an estate in fee simple in the territory—
    (a) made by the State before the date of the surrender; or
    (b) contracted before that date to be so made, either unconditionally or upon conditions which (except as to the payment of purchase money) have been wholly fulfilled at that date.

4. The State shall make no claim for payment in respect of—
    (a) the value of the waste lands of the Crown in the territory; or
    (b) the rents and profits, after the date of the surrender, of any land in the territory held from the Crown under any estate less than an estate in fee simple; or
    (c) the value of the right, title, estate, or interest of the Crown in reversion or expectancy upon the termination of any such estate as mentioned in the last preceding paragraph; or
    (d) the purchase money for the grant by the State of any conditional estate in any land in the territory, in respect of which at the date of the surrender there remains unfulfilled any conditions precedent (other than the payment of purchase money) to the grant of an estate in fee simple.

Signed by the Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, for and on behalf of that State and sealed with the public seal of that State on the twenty‑third day of September 1913.

(L.S.)       G. STRICKLAND
                           Governor of New South Wales.
By Command.
    W. A. HOLMAN.

Signed by the Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, for and on behalf of the Commonwealth and sealed with the seal of the Commonwealth on the 4th day of December 1913.

(L.S.)       DENMAN
                           Governor‑General.
By Command.
    JOSEPH COOK.

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