Application of laws. (2.) The territory so accepted shall he annexed to and be deemed to form part of the Territory acquired by the Commonwealth for the Seat of Government, to the intent that all laws ordinances and regulations (whether made before or after the commencement of this Act), which are from time to time in force in the Territory for the Seat of Government shall so far as applicable apply to and be in force in the territory so accepted.
(3.) Sections six to nine (both inclusive) of the Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909 and the whole of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910 except sections nine and ten shall apply to the territory as if it formed part of the Territory for the Seat of Government.
Disposal of Crown lands 5. No Crown lands in the territory shall be sold or disposed of for any estate of freehold, except in pursuance of some contract entered into before the commencement of this Act.
Application of Lands Acquisition Act 1906 6. The provisions of the Lands Acquisition Act 1906 shall apply to the acquisition by the Commonwealth, for any public purpose, of any land owned in the territory, set out in the said agreement, by any private person:
Provided that in determining the compensation to which the owner is entitled under that Act, the value of the land shall be taken not to exceed the unimproved value of the land, or the interest therein of the owner, on the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and fourteen, together with the value of his interest in the improvements on the land at the date of the acquisition of the land.
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SURRENDER TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA BY THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES OF LAND AT JERVIS BAY.
AGREEMENT 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:
WITNESSETH THAT, subject as hereinafter mentioned to the approval of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and of the State, it is hereby agreed as follows:—
1. The State shall surrender to the Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth shall accept, the territory (hereinafter called the territory), now being part of the State, described hereunder, namely:—
All that piece and parcel of land and water situate at Jervis Bay in the Parish of Bherwerre, County of St. Vincent, State of New South Wales, Commonwealth of Australia, area about 18,000 acres, commencing at a point on the high water mark on the left bank of Sussex Inlet at its intersection with the western boundary of portion 12 of 40 acres and bounded thence westerly and north-westerly by that high water mark to the high water mark of St. George’s Basin, thence in a general easterly and north-easterly direction by that high water mark to its intersection with the production westerly of the southern boundary of portion 18; thence easterly by a straight line formed by the western production of the southern
