Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C1922A00028:section:3:p1
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Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 2520–5256

3  Ratification of amending Agreement
  The amending Agreement, which is set out in the Schedule to this Act, is hereby approved, ratified and confirmed.

The Schedule

AGREEMENT made the second day of September One thousand nine hundred and twenty between the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (hereinafter called the "Commonwealth") of the one part and the STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES (hereinafter called the "State") of the other part Whereas by an agreement dated the eighteenth day of October One thousand nine hundred and nine made between the parties hereto it was agreed (inter alia) that certain lands described in clause five thereof should be granted by the State to the Commonwealth so far as the same were not already vested in the Commonwealth without payment therefor and it was agreed that the said agreement now in recital should not in any way be binding unless and until it was approved by the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and of the State and WHEREAS the Act of the Commonwealth No. 23 of 1909 intituled the "Seat of Government Acceptance Act, 1909" and the Act of the State No. 14 of 1909 intituled the "Seat of Government Surrender Act, 1909" respectively ratified and confirmed the said agreement And Whereas by proclamation under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Frederic John Napier Baron Chelmsford Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George Governor of the State and its dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia and published in the Government Gazette of the State of the fifteenth day of December One thousand nine hundred and nine it was proclaimed that the said "Seat of Government Surrender Act, 1909" should come into force on and from Wednesday the fifteenth day of December One thousand nine hundred and nine And Whereas by proclamation under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Frederic John Napier Baron Chelmsford Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette of the twentieth day of January One thousand nine hundred and ten Saturday the twenty‑second day of January One thousand nine hundred and ten was fixed as the day upon which the "Seat of Government Acceptance Act, 1909" should commence And Whereas certain errors and misdescriptions have been found in the descriptions of the lands described in clause Five aforesaid Now it is hereby agreed as follows:

1.  Clause 5 of the said agreement of the eighteenth day of October One thousand nine hundred and nine shall be deleted and the following clause substituted therefor:

    "The State shall grant to the Commonwealth (so far