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Leslie Solar Salt Industry Agreement Act 1966



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Leslie Solar Salt Industry Agreement Act 1966

Contents

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Short title

Interpretation

Approval of Agreement

By-laws

Special Act not required



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Schedule — Leslie Solar Salt Industry

Agreement

Notes

Compilation table



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Defined terms



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An Act to approve an agreement made between the State and Leslie

Salt Co. and for purposes connected therewith.

1.



Short title

This Act may be cited as the Leslie Solar Salt Industry

Agreement Act 1966 1.



2.



Interpretation

(1)



In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

the Agreement means the agreement a copy of which is set forth

in the Schedule, and if the Agreement is amended in accordance

with its provisions, includes the Agreement as so amended from

time to time.



(2)



Expressions used in this Act have the same respective meanings

as in the Agreement.

[Section 2 amended: No. 19 of 2010 s. 51.]



3.



Approval of Agreement

The Agreement is approved.



4.



By-laws

The Governor may make, alter and repeal by-laws in accordance

with and for the purposes referred to in paragraph (g) of

subclause (1) of clause 5 of the Agreement, and the by-laws —

(a) shall be published in the Government Gazette;



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(b)



(c)

(d)



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shall take effect and have the force of law from the date

they are so published, or from a later date fixed by the

order making the by-laws;

may prescribe penalties not exceeding $100 for a breach

of any of the by-laws; and

are not subject to section 36 of the Interpretation

Act 1918 2, but shall be laid before each House of

Parliament within 6 sitting days of the House next

following the publication of the by-laws in the Gazette

as provided in paragraph (a).



Special Act not required

It is hereby declared that section 96 of the Public Works

Act 1902 does not apply to any railway constructed by the

Company and referred to in subclause (3) of clause 11 of the

Agreement.



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Schedule — Leslie Solar Salt Industry Agreement

[s. 2]

[Heading amended: No. 19 of 2010 s. 4.]

AN AGREEMENT under seal made the 27th day of July One thousand nine

hundred and sixty-six BETWEEN THE HONOURABLE DAVID BRAND

M.L.A. Premier and Treasurer of the State of Western Australia acting for and

on behalf of the said State and its instrumentalities (hereinafter referred to as

“the State”) of the one part AND LESLIE SALT CO. a company incorporated

under the provisions of the statutes of the State of Delaware United States of

America and having its registered office in the State of Western Australia at

Port Hedland (hereinafter called “the Company” which term shall include the

successors and assigns of the Company including where the context so admits

the assignees and appointees of the Company under clause 21 hereof) of the

other part.

WHEREAS the parties hereto desire to enter into this Agreement with the

objects of the establishment and carrying on at and in the vicinity of Port

Hedland of a solar salt industry and such other allied mining and ancillary

industries as may conveniently be carried on in conjunction with a solar salt

industry and such other industries as may be approved by the Minister and

doing all acts matters and things to attain and to facilitate the abovementioned

object.

NOW THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSETH and the parties hereto

COVENANT AND AGREE with one another as follows: —

Definitions 3

1.



In this Agreement subject to the context —

“associated company” means —

(a) any company notified in writing by the Company to the

Minister and which is incorporated in the United Kingdom the

United States of America or any State or Territory of the

Commonwealth of Australia and which is:

(i) a subsidiary of the Company within the meaning of

section 6 of the Companies Act 1961; or



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(ii) a company in which the Company holds not less than

thirty per cent. (30%) of the issued ordinary share

capital; or

(b) any company approved in writing by the Minister for the

purposes of this Agreement which is associated directly or

indirectly with the Company in its business or operations

hereunder;

“Director of Engineering” means the Director of Engineering for the time

being in the Public Works Department of the State of Western

Australia or the officer for the time being discharging the duties of

that office;

“Harbour Authority” means the Department of the Government of the

said State or other authority (statutory or otherwise) having the

control of the harbour at Port Hedland;

“Minister” means the Minister of the Crown to whose administration the

ratifying Act is for the time being committed and otherwise the

Minister for Industrial Development;

“loading time” means the period from the time a ship berths at the wharf

until the time the ship leaves the wharf face;

“month” means calendar month;

“notice” means notice in writing;

“person” or “persons” includes bodies corporate;

“production site” means the land at or in the vicinity of Port Hedland in

the said State comprising approximately 48,000 acres or thereabouts

delineated and edged in blue and shown on the plan marked “A” and

initialled by or on behalf of the parties hereto for the purposes of

identification other than the public roads shown on such plan and

such other land as the parties may agree upon from time to time;

“quarter” means each of the periods of three months expiring on the

respective last days of March June September and December in each

year;

“ratifying Act” means the Act referred to in subclause (1) of clause 2

hereof;



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“said State” means the State of Western Australia;

“shipped” includes removal from the work sites by ship or any other

means;

“stockpile area” means the land at Port Hedland in the said State

delineated and edged in red and subject to survey shown on the plan

marked “B” and initialled by or on behalf of the parties hereto for the

purposes of identification and such other land as the parties hereto

may agree upon from time to time;

“this Agreement” “hereof ” and “hereunder” include this Agreement as

from time to time added to varied or amended;

“ton” means a ton of two thousand two hundred and forty (2240) lbs. net

dry weight;

“wharf” means the wharf to be constructed east of the Government jetty

in the port of Port Hedland;

“work sites” includes the production site stockpile area and the land

comprised in or the subject of any lease license or easement granted

or given hereunder other than any grant or lease under clause 10

hereof;

“year” means a year commencing on the 1st day of July;

reference in this Agreement to an Act shall include the amendments to

such Act for the time being in force and also any Act passed in

substitution therefor or in lieu thereof and the regulations for the

time being in force thereunder;

marginal notes shall not affect the interpretation or the construction of

this Agreement 3.

Ratifying Act 3

2.

(1) The State shall introduce and sponsor a Bill in the Parliament of

Western Australia to ratify this Agreement before the 31st day of October,

1966, or such later day (if any) as the parties hereto may agree upon. If the Bill

is not so passed as an Act before the 30th day of November, 1966 (or such later

day (if any) as the parties hereto may agree upon) this Agreement shall be of no

force or effect and neither of the parties hereto shall have any claim against the



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other of them with respect to any matter or thing arising out of done performed

or omitted to be done or performed under this Agreement.

(2) If the Bill to ratify this Agreement is passed as an Act before the

30th day of November, 1966 (or such later day as aforesaid) the following

provisions of this clause shall notwithstanding the provisions of any Act or law

thereupon operate and take effect namely: —

(a) the provisions of clauses 3 and 4, subclause (1) of clause 5, clause 6,

clauses 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16, subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b)

and paragraph (c) of clause 18, subclause (2) of clause 20, and

clauses 23 and 24 shall take effect as though the same had been

brought into force and had been enacted by the ratifying Act;

(b) subject to paragraph (a) of this subclause the State and the Minister

respectively shall have all the powers discretions and authorities

necessary or requisite to enable them to carry out and perform the

powers discretions authorities and obligations conferred or imposed

upon them respectively hereunder;

(c) the State may by agreement acquire or compulsorily take or resume

as for a public work within the meaning of the Public Works

Act 1902, any land or any estate or interest in land which in the

opinion of the State is reasonably required for the objects of this

Agreement and may thereafter dispose or deal with the same in

accordance with or for the purposes of this Agreement apart from the

provisions of that Act or any other Act AND when any land is to be

so compulsorily taken or resumed under the powers conferred by this

paragraph the provisions of subsections (2) to (7) inclusive of

section 17 and section 17A of the Public Works Act 1902, shall not

apply to or in respect of the land or to the taking or in any other

manner whatsoever;

(d) all land the subject of any lease hereunder shall for the purposes of

the Mining Act 1904, be deemed to be “Private Land” as defined by

section 136 of that Act;

(e) with effect from the day the ratifying Act is passed all those portions

of the roads as at that day lie within the production site shall be

closed and all rights of way over those portions of the roads so

closed shall cease and all those portions of the roads so closed shall

revest in Her Majesty as of her former estate.



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Production Site 3

3.

As soon as conveniently may be after the coming into operation of the

ratifying Act the State shall on the written application of the Company cause the

production site or so much of it as the Company in that application specifies to

be leased to the Company under either the provisions of the Land Act 1933, or

the Mining Act 1904, as the Company requests and the relevant Act shall,

notwithstanding any of the provisions thereof, be deemed to be so amended

varied and modified as to enable the lease to be granted on the following terms

and conditions namely: —

(a) for a term of thirty-one (31) years commencing from a day to be

agreed upon by the parties hereto;

(b) at a rental computed at the rate of $4 per one hundred (100) acres per

annum;

(c) subject to the payment by the Company of the royalties hereinafter

mentioned and to the due and punctual performance by the Company

of its obligations hereunder;

(d) subject to the condition that the Company shall be entitled (provided

the right of re-entry contained in the lease and the renewal thereof

(as the case may be) has not been exercised) to the option —

(i) to renew the lease for a further term of twenty-one (21) years

and on the expiry thereof;

(ii) to further renew the lease for a further term of eleven (11)

years;

on the same terms and conditions as are contained in paragraphs (b),

(c), (e), (g), (h) and (i) of this subclause; and

(e) subject to the condition that the Company will permit the public

access to and from —

(i) the tidal inlets between Cooke Point and six (6) miles east

thereof for fishing and recreational purposes; and

(ii) the high ground at the north end of and partially enclosed by

the crystallisers of the Company;

provided that such access does not unduly interfere with the works of

the Company or its operations hereunder;

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(f) that the cost of any survey required by the State be paid by the

Company;

(g) that the Company shall provide crossing places for persons vehicles

and stock at such places across the channels shown on Plan “A” as

may be agreed from time to time between the parties hereto;

(h) subject to the reservations required in Crown Leases pursuant to the

Petroleum Act 1936; and

(i) otherwise on such terms and conditions as are reasonably required to

give effect to the provisions and objects of this Agreement.

Stockpile Area 3

4.

(1) As soon as conveniently may be after the coming into operation of

the ratifying Act the State shall cause the stockpile area to be reclaimed so

that —

(a) the elevation of the surface thereof is nowhere less than 23 feet

above Admiralty Chart datum; and

(b) the stockpile area has a peripheral levee of not less than 28 feet

above Admiralty Chart datum of a design to be mutually agreed

upon.

(2) Upon the completion of the reclamation of the stockpile area the

State shall cause: —

(a) a calculation to be made of the actual cost to the State of the

reclamation of the stockpile area in accordance with the

specifications referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-clause (1)

of this clause;

(b) the stockpile area to be leased to the Company on the following

terms and conditions: —

(i) for a term co-terminous with the term (including renewals) of

the lease of the production site;

(ii) the annual rental for the period of the lease shall be the greater

of: —

(A) The annual sum required to amortise the costs and

expenses of reclamation calculated in accordance with

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paragraph (a) of this subclause or at the rate of sixteen

thousand dollars ($16,000) per acre of the area of the

stockpile area (whichever is the lesser) together with

interest thereon computed at the rate of 5¼ per centum

per annum over the period of the lease apart from the

period of any renewal thereof, or

(B) Eight thousand dollars ($8,000) per annum;

the first payment to be made on the first anniversary of the

date of the commencement of the lease.

(iii) The annual rental during the period of any renewal shall be the

greater of —

(A) the aggregate sum of one (1) cent per ton of all salt

produced at the production site and shipped in the

relevant year, or

(B) Eight thousand dollars ($8,000) per annum;

(iv) the due and punctual performance by the Company of its

obligations hereunder;

(v) the maintenance by the Company to the satisfaction of the

Minister for the peripheral levee referred to in paragraph (b) of

subclause (1) of this clause;

(vi) the provision of ingress to and egress from the stockpile area

for trucks which are carrying salt to the stockpile area;

(vii) the grant in favour of the Company of an easement or license

in respect of so much of the land along the southern boundary

of the general storage area (which area is delineated and

hatched in blue on the plan marked “B”) as is reasonably

required by the Company —

(A) to enable the Company to erect a conveyor to convey

the salt from the stockpile area to the wharf; and

(B) for the purpose of the servants workmen agents and

contractors of the Company entering upon the land the

subject of the easement or license to enable them to

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(viii) that the cost of any survey required by the State be paid by the

Company;

(ix) subject to the reservations required in Crown Leases pursuant

to the Petroleum Act 1936; and

(x) otherwise on such terms and conditions as are reasonably

required to give effect to the provisions and objects of this

Agreement.

State’s Obligations 3

5.



(1) The State shall:

Design of wharf 3

(a) subject to the provisions of clause 29 hereof and notwithstanding the

Bill referred to in clause 2 has not been introduced at the request of

the Company proceed with the design and specifications of the wharf

in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon by the parties

hereto;

Construction of wharf 3

(b) construct or cause to be constructed the wharf to be not less than six

hundred (600) feet in length and mooring dolphins in such position

as to provide a berth of a total length of not less than nine hundred

and fifty (950) feet AND construct or cause to be constructed the

wharf sufficiently wide to permit the installation thereon of such

travelling bulk loading facilities as will enable ships berthed thereat

to be loaded with salt at the rate of three thousand (3,000) tons per

hour AND complete the construction of the wharf and dredge the

berth and the seabed as provided in paragraph (c) of this subclause to

such a stage that both the wharf and the berth are usable for the

export of salt from the stockpile area within twentyeight (28) months

from the request of the Company to proceed with the design of the

wharf as provided in paragraph (a) of this subclause or within

twentyfour (24) months of the date the Company requests the State

to proceed with the construction of the wharf whichever is the later.

Dredging 3

(c) dredge the berth at the wharf to a depth of not less than forty (40)

feet below Admiralty Chart datum and to a width of two hundred



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(200) feet and to a length of nine hundred and fifty (950) feet and

dredge the seabed between that berth and the periphery of the turning

basin (which is dredged or is to be dredged in accordance with the

proposals as finally approved pursuant to the Agreement scheduled

to Act No. 97 of 1964 of the Parliament of the said State) to —

(i) the same depth to which that turning basin is dredged at the

date the wharf is completed,

or

(ii) nineteen (19) feet below Admiralty Chart datum,

whichever is the deeper and thereafter from time to time during the

continuance of this Agreement dredge the berth and seabed so as to

maintain such original respective depths;

Loading facilities — License 3

(d) upon request by the Company cause the Company to be granted a

license to use the wharf for the construction of such travelling bulk

loading facilities for the Company’s exclusive use as are reasonably

required by the Company therefor and shall not acquire (unless by

purchase) any property in the travelling bulk loading facilities by

reason of being affixed to the wharf and the State shall permit the

Company to remove the same;

Priority to ships loading salt 3

(e) provided that the company complies strictly with the provisions of

paragraph (c) of subclause (2) of this clause and at all times uses

methods and facilities reasonably expeditious by world standards for

the loading of salt all ships requiring the berth at the wharf for the

purpose of loading salt produced from the production site shall be

entitled at all times to the use of the wharf in priority to all other

ships including ships owned or chartered by the State provided that if

in any year the aggregate loading time of ships loading salt at the

wharf exceeds two thousand four hundred (2,400) hours then the

Company shall not thereafter for that year be entitled to any priority

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Flood protection 3

(f) grant permission for the company to construct a flood protection

levee in accordance with plans and specifications first approved by

the Minister at or approximately at and across the northern end of the

strip of land between the Company’s crystallisers;

By-laws 3

(g) at the request of the Company recommend the Governor in

Executive Council to make alter and repeal by-laws for the purpose

of —

(i) making any ship liable to pay to the Company any loss

sustained or incurred by the Company by reason of the failure

of the master charterers or owners of that ship to give the

priority provided by paragraph (e) of subclause (1) of this

clause save and except where that failure was due to Act of

God or circumstances beyond the control of the master

charterers or owners of the ship or the exercise of the ordinary

and necessary authority of the Port Authority or Harbour

Master with respect to the directions and control of that ship;

(ii) enabling the Company to operate trains for the carriage of salt

upon the railway constructed on the land the subject of any

lease or license granted under subclause (3) of Clause 11

hereof;

(iii) suspending the public right of way over that portion of a

public road where it crosses the Company’s railway whenever

any engine wagon or van is approaching and within a distance

of a quarter of a mile from that crossing and at all other times

limiting the public right of crossing the line of the Company’s

railway unless done with all convenient speed, and without

stopping or continuing thereon.

Company’s obligations 3

(2) The Company shall:

Costs of the design of the wharf 3

(a) at all reasonable times at the request of the State whilst the wharf is

being designed and the specifications being drawn make available on

the Company’s behalf a person for consultation with the officers

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servants or agents of the State in respect of the design of the wharf or

of the specifications therefor;

Travelling bulk loading facilities 3

(b) construct the travelling bulk loading facilities referred to in

paragraph (b) of subclause (1) of this clause (initially with a capacity

of not less than fifteen hundred (1,500) tons per hour) to the

satisfaction of the State in accordance with the plans and

specifications therefor approved by the State and in particular in

such manner that the loading or unloading of cargoes for other

persons who may from time to time require the use of the wharf shall

not be unduly restricted whilst salt is not being loaded at the wharf

AND the Company shall in the event of it removing the whole or any

part of the travelling bulk loading facilities restore to the satisfaction

of the State that part of the wharf used or occupied by the travelling

bulk loading facilities or to which the same was affixed;

Notice to ensure priority to ships loading salt 3

(c) at all times and from time to time —

(i) give reasonable notice to the Harbour Authority of the periods

respectively required at the wharf by ships engaged in

transporting salt produced at the production site;

(ii) give not less than eight (8) days notice to the Harbour

Authority of the respective dates and times a ship is expected

to arrive at and depart from the wharf;

(iii) give immediate notice to the Harbour Authority of any change

in the date or time referred to in paragraph (ii) of this

subclause.

Charges 3

(d) pay to the State in respect of the use by ships berthing at the wharf to

load salt an annual charge of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for

each of the twenty (20) years next following the day of completion

of the wharf and which payments will be made on the relevant

anniversaries of the day of completion of the wharf the first of which

shall be paid by the Company on the first anniversary of the day of

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Day of completion of wharf 3

(3) It is agreed by and between the parties hereto that the wharf shall be

deemed to be completed upon the day stated in the notice given by the Director

of Engineering to the Company certifying that the wharf and the dredging

referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) respectively of subclause (1) of this clause

are completed and the date so stated shall be conclusive evidence between the

parties hereto of the completion of the wharf on that day.

The day so stated in that notice is herein referred to as the “day of

completion of the wharf”.

License to pump salt 3

6.

Upon the written request of the Company for the grant of a license to

permit the Company to pump salt in the form of slurry to the stockpile area from

the washing and stacking area adjacent to the crystallisers the State will at the

cost of the Company cause the route to be surveyed which the State (after

consultation with the officers of the Company) considers most practicable and

convenient for the purpose of so pumping that salt without prejudicing or

interfering with the use of public roads in the area the route traverses and will as

soon as practicable after the completion of that survey cause a license over the

surveyed route to be granted to the Company on such terms and conditions as

are reasonably required to give effect to the objects and provisions of this

Agreement.

The license will be enjoyed by the Company for so long as the Company

is the lessee of both the production site and stockpile area for the purposes of

the Company —

(a) entering (by its servants agents and contractors) upon the surveyed

route —

(i) to lay all such necessary pipes and construct all such necessary

apparatus as will enable the Company to pump the salt in form

of slurry from the washing and stacking area to the stockpile

area;

(ii) to renew from time to time and at all times to maintain those

pipes in good order and condition and doing all acts and things

incidental to all or any of the said purposes, and

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Company’s obligations 3

7.

Provided that the Company has given the notice to the State referred to in

clause 29 hereof —

(a) the Company will not later than the 30th day of June, 1967

commence to construct and thereafter will diligently proceed with

the construction and establishment on the work sites of a solar salt

plant at a total estimated cost of $7,000,000. Such plant shall be

designed to produce one million tons of salt per annum and shall

initially be capable of producing and loading into the holds of ships

at the wharf not less than 475,000 tons of salt per annum. The

construction and establishment of the plant on the work sites and the

provision of necessary ancillary works, buildings, plant, equipment

and services for the production of salt and for the loading of salt into

ships at the wharf with a capacity of 475,000 tons per annum shall be

completed by the 30th day of June, 1972;

(b) the Company undertakes that it will progressively increase the

capacity of the solar salt plant until the plant shall be capable of

producing not less than one million tons of salt per annum and that

the construction and establishment of the plant and necessary

ancillary works, buildings, plant, equipment and services with a

capacity of one million tons of salt per annum shall be completed by

the 30th day of June, 1975;

(c) The Company undertakes initially to install on the wharf bulk

loading facilities which will enable ships berthed thereat to be loaded

with salt at the rate of not less than One thousand five hundred

(1,500) tons per hour.

Royalty 3

8.

(1) Throughout the continuance of this Agreement the Company shall

pay to the State a royalty on all salt produced at the work sites and shipped

computed as set out hereunder: —

Rate per ton

On the first 500,000 tons in any year ...........................

On the second 500,000 tons in any year .......................

On all tonnages in excess of 1,000,000 tons in any

year ........................................................................

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Tonnages shall be ascertained at Port Hedland in such manner as the parties

hereto may from time to time agree upon.

Returns 3

(2) Within the fourteen (14) days next following each quarter

(commencing with the quarter next following the first shipment of salt produced

at the work sites), the Company shall furnish to the Minister a return showing

the quantity of all salt produced at the work sites and shipped in that quarter and

shall not later than one month next following that quarter pay to the State the

royalty payable in respect of the salt produced and shipped in that quarter.

Wharfage 3

(3) Throughout the continuance of this Agreement the company shall

pay to the State on the salt which is loaded into ships at the wharf the wharfage

charges set out hereunder: —

Rate per ton

On the first 500,000 tons in any year .........................

On the second 500,000 tons in any year ....................

On all tonnages in excess of 1,000,000 tons in any

year .....................................................................



12.5 cents

7.5 cents

5 cents



A fair and reasonable reduction will be made in the above wharfage charges if

under any agreement with the State a company has agreed to contribute (either

directly or indirectly) to the cost of the wharf or dredging referred to in

paragraph (c) of subclause (1) of clause 5 or to make any contribution towards

the maintenance thereof or either of such works.

Other charges 3

(4) Subject to the provisions of subclause (1) of clause 20 hereof the

State may make or cause to be made against vessels using the wharf the usual

charges from time to time prevailing in respect of services rendered to vessels

by the State or any agency instrumentality or local or other authority of the State

and may charge vessels using the wharf such conservancy and pilotage charge

or dues as are payable from time to time pursuant to the provisions of any Act

and 40 per cent. of any berthage charge payable under any Act.

Inspection of Records 3

(5) Throughout the continuance of this Agreement the Company shall

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account and records of the Company relative to the production of salt on the

work sites and any sale or shipment thereof and to take copies or extracts

therefrom so far as is necessary for the purpose of determining the revenue

payable in respect of salt shipped or sold hereunder. The Company will take

reasonable steps to satisfy the State either by the certificate of a competent

independent party acceptable to the State or otherwise to the Minister’s

reasonable satisfaction as to all relevant weights and will give due regard to any

objection or representation made by the Minister or his nominee as to any

particular weight of that salt which may affect the amount of royalty payable

hereunder.

Escalation 3

9.

(1) Notwithstanding anything herein contained it is hereby agreed by

and between the parties hereto in order to provide for the equitable performance

of this contract in the event of the price of salt (as hereinafter defined) on the

14th, 21st, 28th, 35th, 42nd, 49th and 56th anniversaries of the commencement

date (being the day of the commencement of the term of the lease of the

production site) exceeding the price of salt on the 7th anniversary day of the

commencement date, then the percentage by which the price of salt on the

relevant anniversary day exceeds the price of salt on the 7th anniversary day of

the commencement date shall be calculated and the several amounts mentioned

herein and payable by the Company to the State as —

(a) rental under paragraph (b) of clause 3;

(b) rental under subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of subclause (2) of

clause 4;

(c) royalty under subclause (1) of clause 8; and

(d) wharfage charges under subclause (3) of clause 8;

shall be increased by the percentage so calculated and such increased amounts

in respect of those items shall be payable by the Company to the State during

the seven (7) years next following the relevant anniversary day.

(2) For the purposes of this clause the price of salt on the

7th anniversary day of the commencement date and on each of the aforesaid

anniversary days means the average price of salt shipped from the production

site during the previous year payable by the purchaser or purchasers thereof to

the Company less all export duties taxes and fees payable to the Commonwealth

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by the Company from the time the salt is shipped to the time the salt is delivered

to and accepted by the purchaser or purchasers including —

(a) ocean freight;

(b) marine insurance;

(c) port and handling charges at the port of discharge;

(d) all costs properly incurred in delivering the salt from the port of

discharge to the purchaser as evidenced by relevant invoices;

(e) all weighing, sampling, analysis, inspection and representation costs;

(f) all shipping agency charges after shipment; and

(g) all import taxes imposed or levied by the country or the port of

discharge.

(3) Throughout the continuance of this Agreement the Company shall

use its best endeavours to obtain for the salt produced at the production site the

best price possible having regard to market conditions from time to time

prevailing.

Housing 3

10. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause the State will on the written

application made from time to time by the Company for land for housing

purposes grant to the Company in such locality as land is available therefor a

lease of such vacant lots as the Company requests on the following terms and

conditions namely: —

(a) for a term of five years commencing from a day to be agreed upon

by the parties hereto;

(b) at a rental sufficient to reimburse a reasonable proportion of the costs

(if any) incurred by the State in the preparation of the land for

subdivision;

(c) that the Company will within eighteen months of the commencement

of the term of each lease complete on the land the subject of that

lease the erection of living accommodation for occupation by a

family or single persons at a cost of not less than $7,000;

(d) that on the expiration of the term of the lease and subject to the due

and punctual observance and performance of all the covenants

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agreements and conditions on the Company’s part therein contained,

on the request of the Company grant to it an estate in fee simple in

the land the subject of the lease at a price not exceeding two hundred

dollars ($200) plus Crown Grant and survey fees;

(e) that the Company will not sell transfer assign sub-let or mortgage

charge or encumber any lease without the consent of the State first

had and obtained PROVIDED THAT the consent of the State shall

not be required to the transfer assignment or sub-lease of a lot to an

employee of the Company nor to any mortgage where the Company

has complied with paragraph (c) of this clause in relation to that lot;

(f) that the Company will pay to the relevant local authority (when

requested by the local authority so to do) such amount (at the date

hereof estimated not to exceed $420) as the local authority

reasonably requires at the time of the grant of the lease to enable it to

supply or make available the usual services;

(g) otherwise on such terms and conditions as are reasonably required to

give effect to the provisions and objects of this Agreement.

(2) The State shall not be required to lease to the Company during the

currency of this Agreement more than fifty lots nor more than ten lots in any

one year. The request for each lot shall be made by the Company at least three

months before the Company requires the lease of that lot to be granted to it. In

the event of the State consenting under the provisions of paragraph (e) of

subclause (1) of this clause to a transfer or an assignment of the lot the State

shall not be required to lease another lot in lieu of the lot so transferred or

assigned.

Road and Rail Transport 3

11. (1) Subject to the provisions of subclause (2) of this clause the State

agrees that it shall be lawful for the Company to use for the carriage of salt on

any public road between the production site and the stockpile area prime movers

and two trailers the combined length of which shall not exceed eighty-five (85)

feet in length notwithstanding any provision in any Act to the contrary.

(2) The right conferred by subclause (1) of this clause shall operate until

the tenth anniversary of the day of the first shipment of salt and thereafter until

determined by not less than three years’ notice in writing by the Minister. Such

notice may be given to expire on the tenth anniversary of the day of the first

shipment of salt or it any time thereafter.

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(3) Upon the written request of the Company for the grant of a lease to

enable the company to construct a railway from the production site to the

stockpile area the State will at the cost of the Company cause a route to be

surveyed which the State (after consultation with the officers of the Company)

considers most practicable and convenient therefor and will as soon as

practicable after the completion of that survey at the cost and expense of the

Company in all things (including the acquisition and resumption of the lands

over which the route passes) cause a lease (including renewals) of the surveyed

route (other than any part thereof declared dedicated or proclaimed as a public

road) to be granted to the Company for so long as the Company is the lessee of

both the production site and the stockpile area for the sole purpose of the

Company constructing and operating a railway on the leased land and on such

terms and conditions as are reasonably required to give effect to the objects and

provisions of this Agreement. In respect of any part of a public road over which

the railway operates the State will cause the Company to be granted a license to

operate its railway over that part of the public road on such terms and conditions

as are reasonably required to give effect to the provisions and objects of this

Agreement.

Sea Water 3

12. (1) The Company may without charge draw sea water from the Indian

Ocean for all or any one or more of its operations in respect of the production of

salt on the work sites and the Company may discharge at high water mark

residual brines resulting from those operations into tidal inlet or inlets at points

adjacent to the Company’s crystallisers and the State shall grant to the Company

any necessary easement or license for the purposes over Crown lands upon such

terms and conditions as shall be reasonable having regard to the requirements of

the Company under this clause and the overall development and use by others of

those Crown lands.

(2) Subject to the Company’s compliance with the Mining Act 1904, and

all other relevant statutes and regulations for the time being in force the

Company if and when it becomes economical so to do shall have the right to the

exclusion of any other person to recover any chemicals in the brines.

Rights of Ingress and Egress 3

13. The State shall from time to time on the written application of the

Company grant to the Company a license or licenses over Crown lands for the

purpose of the Company by its servants agents contractors invitees and

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more part or parts of the work sites for a term or terms respectively concurrent

with the term (including renewals) of the lease of the production site and on

such terms and conditions as shall be reasonable having regard to the

requirements of the Company in respect of its obligations to construct maintain

operate and inspect the improvements from time to time constructed or installed

on the work sites and to the overall development and use by others of those

Crown lands.

Export License 3

14. If at any time or times under Commonwealth law an export license is

required by the Company for the export of salt then on written request by the

Company the State shall make representation to the Government of the

Commonwealth of Australia for the grant to the Company of a license or

licenses under Commonwealth law for the export of salt in such quantities and

at such rate or rates as shall be reasonable having regard to the tonnage of salt

being produced by the Company at such time or times as a license is so required

and to all contracts made or likely to be made by the Company for the export or

supply of salt from the work sites.

Diversion of fresh water 3

15. (1) To enable the Company to successfully operate it will be necessary

to prevent fresh or rain water from entering the concentrating and crystallising

areas and accordingly the Company desires the right to divert from time to time

the fresh or rain water flowing in the Ridley River and other watercourses from

their respective normal courses. The State acknowledges the necessity of such

diversions and will so far as practicable having regard to the users of the

surrounding land permit the Company to make such diversions subject to and in

accordance with the provisions set out in subclause (2) of this clause.

(2) When and as often as the Company anticipates that it desires to make

a diversion for the purpose aforesaid and where such diversion may affect lands

outside the work sites it shall before commencing any such diversion

immediately submit to the Minister in duplicate its proposals (which shall

include all plans and specifications) in respect of the diversion it is desirous of

making and shall also give to the Minister such further information and plans in

respect of the diversion as the Minister from time to time reasonably requires in

respect of the diversion. As soon as reasonably possible after the Minister has

been given the Company’s proposals and such further information and plans

which he may require the Minister shall either inform the Company in

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(i) that he has approved of the Company’s proposals as submitted by the

Company or as amended by him whereupon the Company shall be at

liberty (subject to the provisions of subclause (3) of this clause) to

proceed with the making of the diversion in the manner submitted or

as amended by the Minister (as the case may be); or

(ii) that he has disapproved of the Company’s proposals or as amended

or qualified by any further information and plans (as the case may

be). Within the month next following the receipt of this disapproval

the Company may elect by notice to the Minister to refer to

arbitration the dispute as to the reasonableness of the Minister’s

disapproval and within the month following such election shall refer

such dispute to arbitration. If by the award on arbitration the dispute

is decided against the Company then the Company shall not be at

liberty to proceed to make such diversion but if the question is

decided in favour of the Company the award will take effect as an

approval by the Minister and the Company shall be at liberty (subject

to the provisions of subclause (3) of this clause) to proceed to make

such diversion in accordance with the terms of the award.

(3) Before the Company commences to proceed with the making of the

diversion referred to in the immediately preceding subclause the Company shall

enter into a Deed of Covenant with the State in such form as the Minister in his

absolute discretion determines covenanting to indemnify the Crown in right of

the State against all claims costs and expenses which may at any time or times

be made against the Crown in the right of the State in respect of that diversion

or arising out of or incidental to or in consequence of that diversion.

Limitation of Liability 3

16. Where the Company from time to time constructs a levee or other works

on the production site for or incidental to the production of salt and thereafter a

third party makes improvements to lands or becomes the owner of

improvements so made on lands adjacent to the production site and subsequent

to those improvements being made the Company removes (either wholly or

partly) or fails to maintain or to repair that levee or other works and in

consequence thereof the third party suffers sustains or incurs damage to those

improvements or any part thereof then notwithstanding any Act or any rule of

law or equity to the contrary the Company shall not be liable for those damages

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Employees 3

17. The parties hereto acknowledge the principle that in the operation of a

solar salt plant all employees during their respective normal working hours are

not continuously or fully engaged in the performance or discharge of their

respective duties and hence from time to time there is or could be a surplus in

the number of employees required by the Company. To avoid this so happening

and to maintain so far as practicable full employment for all its employees at all

times the Company proposes to use employees whilst not engaged in the

performance or discharge of their respective duties to assist in the loading of

ships at wharf with salt produced at the work sites and in the supervision thereof

and to perform or discharge such other duties as may be assigned to them from

time to time by the Company. To enable the foregoing objectives to be put into

practice the State will at the request of the Company made to it from time to

time use reasonable endeavours to assist in the implementation and achievement

of these objectives.

Default 3

18.



The parties hereto covenant and agree with each other as follows: —

(a) that in any of the following events namely if the Company fails in any

year after the 30th June, 1975 to ship at least 475,000 tons of salt and

furthermore the average of the tonnage shipped in that year and in the

previous three years is less than 475,000 tons a year or if the Company

makes default in the due and punctual performance of any of the

covenants agreements or obligations to the State herein or in any lease

sub-lease easement license or other title or document granted or

assigned under this Agreement on its part to be performed or observed

and shall fail to remedy that default within reasonable time after notice

specifying the default is given to it by the State (or if the alleged

default is contested by the Company and promptly submitted to

arbitration within a reasonable time fixed by the arbitration award

where the question is decided against the Company the arbitrator

finding that there was a bona fide dispute and that the Company had

not been dilatory in pursuing the arbitration) or if the Company

abandons or repudiates its operations under this Agreement or if the

Company goes into liquidation (other that a voluntary liquidation for

the purpose of reconstruction) or if the Company gives the notice

referred to in subclause (2) of clause 29 hereof then and in any of such

events the State may by notice given to the Company determine this

Agreement and the rights of the Company hereunder and under any



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lease license easement or right granted or demised hereunder or

pursuant hereto and upon receipt by the Company of that notice this

Agreement and the rights of the Company hereunder and under any

lease license easement or right granted or demised hereunder or

pursuant hereto shall determine PROVIDED HOWEVER that if the

Company fails to remedy any default after notice is given to the

Company specifying the default or within the time fixed by the

arbitration award as aforesaid and the Company has not given notice

to the State under subclause (2) of clause 29 hereof the State instead of

determining this Agreement as aforesaid because of such default may

itself remedy such default or cause the same to be remedied (for which

purpose the State by its agents workmen or otherwise shall have full

power to enter upon lands occupied by the Company and to make use

of all plant and machinery equipment and installations thereon) and

the costs and expenses incurred by the State remedying or causing to

be remedied such default shall be a debt payable by the Company to

the State on demand made by the State:

Effect of determination of Agreement 3

(b) that on the cessation or determination of this Agreement:

(i) except as otherwise agreed by the Minister the rights of the

Company to in or under this Agreement and the rights of the

Company or any assignee of the Company or any mortgagee

to in or under any lease license easement or right granted or

demised hereunder or pursuant hereto shall thereupon cease

and determine but without prejudice to the liability of either of

the parties hereto in respect of any antecedent breach or

default under this Agreement AND the Company shall without

further consideration but otherwise at the request and cost of

the State transfer or surrender to the State or the Crown all

land the subject of any lease license easement or right granted

or demised hereunder or pursuant hereto AND the Company

hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the Minister or

such person as he may from time to time nominate the true

and lawful attorney of the Company to execute the transfer or

surrenders aforesaid;

(ii) the Company shall forthwith pay to the State all moneys

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(iii) save as aforesaid and as provided in paragraph (c) of this clause

and subclause (2) of clause 29 hereof neither of the parties

hereto shall have any claim against the other with respect to any

matter or thing in or arising out of this Agreement;

(c) that on the cessation or determination of any lease license easement

or right granted or demised hereunder or pursuant hereto by the State

to the Company or (except as otherwise agreed by the Minister) to an

associated company or other assignee of the Company under

clause 21 hereof the improvements and things other than plant

equipment erected on the relevant land and provided for in

connection therewith shall remain or become the absolute property

of the Crown without compensation and freed and discharged from

all mortgages and encumbrances and the Company will do and

execute such documents and things (including surrenders) as the

State may reasonably require to give effect to this provision AND

the Company hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the

Minister or such person as he may from time to time nominate the

true and lawful attorney of the Company to execute those documents

and things (including surrenders). In the event of the Company prior

to such expiration or determination or subsequent thereto deciding to

remove its plant equipment or any of them from any land the

Company shall not do so without first notifying the State in writing

of its decision and thereby granting to the State the right or option

exerciseable within three (3) months thereafter to purchase at

valuation in situ the said plant equipment or any of them. Such

valuation will be mutually agreed or in default of agreement shall be

made by such competent valuer as the parties hereto may appoint or

failing agreement as to such appointment then by two competent

valuers one to be appointed by each party or by an umpire appointed

by such valuers should they fail to agree;

(d) the provisions of this clause shall not apply to any land or the

improvements thereon the subject of a grant of an estate in fee

simple granted to the Company pursuant to the provisions of

paragraph (d) of subclause (1) of clause 10 hereof nor to any land or

the improvements thereon the subject of a lease granted under the

provisions of such subclause to which the Company at the date of

cessation or determination of this Agreement is entitled to a grant of

an estate in fee simple under the provisions of paragraph (d) of that

subclause.

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Salt for use in Australia 3

19. The Company acknowledges the desire of the State to have available a

constant and reliable source of supply of salt for use in Australia. To attain this

object the Company, subject to the fulfilment of its overseas contracts will use

its best endeavours to have such quantities of salt available at all times during

the currency of this Agreement for sale for use in Australia as will meet

reasonable demands therefor made on the Company from time to time at a price

which is competitive in the Australian market provided that such price is not

less than that which the Company is receiving or able to receive for similar

quantities of salt sold on similar terms and conditions for use outside Australia.

Use of Channel Approach 3

20. (1) During the course of the negotiation of this Agreement the State

informed the Company that the State would require the Company to pay to “the

Joint Venturers” referred to in the Agreement scheduled to the Iron Ore (Mount

Goldsworthy) Agreement Act 1964 (No. 97 of 1964) fair and reasonable charges

for the use of the “channel approach” referred to in paragraph (e) of

subclause (4) of clause 9 of the said Agreement and as a result thereof certain

negotiations took place between the Company and the Joint Venturers and the

Company has informed the State that the Company and the Joint Venturers have

agreed that the Company shall pay to the Joint Venturers certain charges for the

right to use the said “channel approach” by the Company and by ships

transporting or about to transport salt from the work sites. The State covenants

with the Company that during the continuance of this Agreement the State shall

not impose or levy nor permit nor authorise any agency or instrumentality of the

State or any local or other authority to impose or levy (either directly or

indirectly) on the Company, or on any ship transporting or about to transport

salt produced from the work sites, any charge in relation to the use of the said

“channel approach” by the Company or by any ship as aforesaid irrespective of

the tonnage of salt shipped from the work sites and irrespective of whether or

not the Company, under its agreement with the Joint Venturers, remains under

any obligation to make or to continue to make any payment to the Joint

Venturers PROVIDED THAT subject to paragraph (b) of subclause (2) of this

clause where the State has incurred any cost or expense in maintaining the said

“channel approach” nothing in this subclause shall operate to prevent the State

from imposing a reasonable charge or levy on the Company or on ships

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Restrictions on resumption 3

(2) The State further covenants with the Company that the State: —

(a) having regard to the particular nature of the industry proposed to be

established by the Company under this Agreement and subject to the

performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder shall not

resume or suffer or permit to be resumed by any State

instrumentality or by any local or other authority of the said State

any portion of the work sites the resumption of which would

unreasonably impede the Company’s activities nor shall the State

create or permit or suffer to be created or granted by an

instrumentality or authority of the said State as aforesaid any road

right of way or easement of any nature or kind whatsoever over or in

respect of the work sites which may unduly prejudice or interfere

with the Company’s operations hereunder without the consent in

writing of the Company first having been obtained which consent

shall not be arbitrarily or unreasonably withheld;

No discriminatory taxes or charges 3

(b) except as provided in this Agreement shall not impose nor permit nor

authorise any of its agencies or instrumentalities or any local or other

authority of the State to impose discriminatory taxes rates or charges

of any nature whatsoever on or in respect of the titles property or other

assets products materials or services used or produced by or through

the operations of the Company in the conduct of the Company’s

business hereunder nor shall the State take or permit to be taken by

any such State authority any other discriminatory action which would

deprive the Company of full enjoyment of the rights granted and

intended to be granted under this Agreement;

Upgrading of roads 3

(c) shall at the request and cost of the Company (except where and to

the extent that the Commissioner of Main Roads agrees to bear the

whole or part of the cost involved) widen upgrade or realign any

public road over which the State has control subject to the prior

approval of the said Commissioner to the proposed work;

Rating 3

(d) notwithstanding the provisions of any Act or anything done or

purported to be done under any Act the valuation of all lands

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(whether of a freehold or leasehold nature) the subject of this

Agreement (except as to any part upon which a permanent residence

shall be erected or which is occupied in connection therewith) shall

for rating purposes be deemed to be on the unimproved value thereof

and no such lands shall be subject to any discriminatory rate;

Labour conditions 3

(e) during the currency of this Agreement and subject to compliance

with its obligations hereunder the Company shall not be required to

comply with the labour conditions imposed by or under any Act in

regard to any lease of any land within the work sites.

Assignment 3

21. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause and of clause 10 hereof the

Company may at any time —

(a) assign mortgage charge sublet or dispose of to any associated

company as of right and to any other company or person with the

consent in writing of the Minister the whole or any part of the rights

of the Company hereunder (including its rights to or as the holder of

any lease license easement grant or other title) and of the obligations

of the Company hereunder, and

(b) appoint as of right an associated company or with the consent in

writing of the Minister any other company or person to exercise all

or any of the powers functions and authorities which are or may be

conferred on the Company hereunder

subject however to the assignee or (as the case may be) the appointee executing in

favour of the State a deed of covenant in a form to be approved by the Minister to

comply with observe and perform the provisions hereof on the part of the

Company to be complied with observed or performed in regard to the matter or

matters so assigned or (as the case may be) the subject of the appointment.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in or anything done under or

pursuant to subclause (1) of this clause the Company unless the Minister

otherwise agrees shall at all times during the currency of this Agreement be and

remain liable for the due and punctual performance and observance of all the

covenants and agreements on its part contained herein and in any lease license

easement grant or other title the subject of an assignment under the said

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Arbitration 3

22. Any dispute or difference between the parties arising out of or in

connection with this Agreement or any agreed amendment or variation thereof

or agreed addition thereto or as to the constructions of this Agreement or any

such amendment variation or addition as to the rights duties or liabilities of

either party hereunder or as to any matter to be agreed upon between the parties

under this Agreement shall in default of agreement between the parties and in

the absence of any provision in this Agreement to the contrary be referred to

and settled by arbitration under the provisions of the Arbitration Act 1895.

Variation 3

23. The parties hereto may from time to time by mutual agreement in writing

add to, vary or cancel all or any of the provisions of the Agreement or any lease

license easement or right granted or demised hereunder or pursuant hereto for the

purpose of more efficiently or satisfactorily implementing or facilitating any of

the objects of this Agreement or for altering the provisions of clause 10 hereof.

Force Majeure 3

24. This agreement shall be deemed to be made subject to any delays in the

performance of obligations under this Agreement and to the temporary

suspension of continuing obligations hereunder which may be occasioned by or

arise from circumstances beyond the power and control of the party responsible

for the performance of such obligations including delays or any such temporary

suspension as aforesaid caused by or arising from Act of God force majeure

floods storms tempests washaways fire (unless caused by the actual fault or

privity of the Company) act of war act of public enemies riots civil commotions

strikes lockouts stoppages restraint of labour or other similar acts (whether

partial or general) shortages of labour or essential materials reasonable failure to

secure contractors delays of contractors and inability (common in the salt export

industry) to profitably sell salt or factors due to overall world economic

conditions or factors which could not reasonably have been foreseen

PROVIDED ALWAYS that the party whose performance of obligations is

affected by any of the said causes shall minimise the effect of the said causes as

soon as possible after their occurrence.

Continuance of Agreement 3

25. (1) If the Company is desirous of a further continuance of this

Agreement (whether in the same or any varied or modified form) and if the

parties hereto have not at least fifteen (15) months prior to the expiration of the

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second term of renewal of the leases easements and licenses of the lands

comprised in the work sites and of the lands (if any) whereon the residences of

the Company’s employees are constructed (hereinafter referred to as “the

expiration of the second renewal”) agreed upon the terms and conditions in

respect of a further agreement for the production at and shipment of salt from

the work sites then the State shall at least fourteen (14) months prior to the

expiration of the second renewal make the Company such written offer

(hereinafter called “the offer”) of the terms and conditions of the further

agreement as it deems reasonable and unless the Company has —

(i) within the month next following the receipt of the offer accepted it

(either in the form so offered or as modified or varied by negotiation

between the parties hereto), or

(ii) within the fourteen days next following the receipt of the offer

referred that offer or the part or parts thereof which the Company

considers unreasonable to arbitration (as provided in subclause (2)

hereof)

the State may at the expiration of that month proceed as in manner set out in

subclause 3 of this clause.

(2) Within the fourteen (14) days next following the receipt of the offer

the Company may elect by notice to the State to refer to arbitration any dispute

concerning the reasonableness of the State’s offer or any part or parts thereof

and will within fourteen (14) days next following such election refer to

arbitration that dispute. Unless the Company within the fourteen (14) days next

following the receipt by it of the award on arbitration by notice to the State

accepts the offer as varied or modified by the award on arbitration the State may

proceed as in manner set out in subclause (3) of this clause.

(3) If the Company has not accepted the offer or the offer as varied or

modified by the award on arbitration subject to and in accordance with the

provisions set out in subclause (1) or (2) respectively of this clause then the

State may enter into an agreement for the production and shipment of salt from

the work sites with any other person on terms and conditions more favourable

on the whole than the offer made by the State or in the event of the offer having

been submitted to arbitration the offer as varied or modified by the award on

arbitration provided the State has first offered to the Company the right of first

refusal of such terms and conditions and such offer is not accepted by the

Company within a reasonable time.



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26. Any notice consent request or other writing authorised or required by this

Agreement to be given or sent shall be deemed to have been duly given or sent

by the State if signed by the Minister or by any senior officer of the Civil

Service of the said State acting by the direction of the Minister and forwarded

by pre-paid registered post to the Company at its registered office for the time

being in the said State and by the Company if signed on its behalf by an officer

of the Company or by any person or persons authorised by the Company in that

behalf or by its solicitors as notified to the State from time to time and

forwarded by pre-paid registered post to the Minister AND any such notice

consent or writing shall be deemed to have been duly given or sent on the day

on which it would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.

Relevant Law 3

27. (1) This Agreement shall be interpreted according to the law for the time

being in force in the said State.

(2) All payments made or to be made under this Agreement shall be

made in the State of Western Australia in Australian currency unless otherwise

agreed. All sums mentioned herein are in Australian currency.

Expiration of Agreement 3

28. This Agreement shall expire on the expiration or sooner determination of

the leases easements and licenses (including the respective renewals thereof) of

the lands comprised in the work sites but without prejudice to the right of action

of either party hereto in respect of any breach of the covenants agreements and

conditions herein contained.

Conditions 3

29. (1) This Agreement is conditional upon the Company at any time prior

to the 31st day of December, 1966 giving notice to the Minister that: —

(a) the Company has entered into or intends to enter into contracts or

arrangements satisfactory to the Company for the sale by the

Company of salt; and

(b) The Company has made or is about to make arrangements

satisfactory to the Company for financing by any means the works

referred to in clause 7 hereof and that the Company proposes to

proceed with such works.

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(2) Notwithstanding anything herein contained the Company may at any

time give notice to the State that matters have arisen which make the completion

or continuance of the works impracticable or uneconomic and desires to

determine this Agreement whereupon this Agreement will then cease and

determine and the State may enforce all or any one or more of its rights

remedies or powers set out in paragraphs (b) and (c) of clause 18 hereof

PROVIDED THAT —

(a) if the State has completed the construction of the wharf the Company

shall remain liable to pay to the State the annual charge of sixty

thousand dollars ($60,000) for each of the twenty (20) years

following the day of completion of the wharf as provided by

paragraph (d) of subclause (2) of clause 5 hereof; and

(b) if the construction of the wharf has been commenced but is not

completed when the Company gives the State the notice aforesaid

then the State at the request of the Company will use reasonable

endeavours to cancel the contract for the construction of the wharf

and the Company will if the contract be cancelled indemnify the

State against all demands claims costs and expenses so incurred in

respect of or incidental to —

(i) the construction of the wharf to the date the contract is

cancelled; and

(ii) the cancellation of the contract for the construction of the

wharf

limited however to so many of the payments (including part of any if

necessary) as are payable under and in accordance with the provisions

of paragraph (d) of subclause (2) of clause 5 hereof as will be

sufficient to so indemnify the State. If the State after using reasonable

endeavours to cancel the contract fails so to do the Company will

remain liable to pay to the State the annual charge of Sixty Thousand

Dollars ($60,000) as provided under and in accordance with the

provisions of paragraph (d) of subclause (2) of clause 5 hereof.

30. The State shall exempt from any stamp duty which but for the operation

of this clause would or might be chargeable on —

(a) this Agreement;



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(b) any instrument executed by the State pursuant to this Agreement

granting to or in favour of the Company or any permitted assignee of

the Company any lease license easement or right granted or demised

hereunder or pursuant hereto;

PROVIDED THAT this clause shall not apply to any instrument or other

document executed or made more than seven years from the date hereof.

IN WITNESS whereof this Agreement has been executed by or on behalf

of the parties hereto the day and year first hereinbefore mentioned.



SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED

by THE HONOURABLE DAVID

BRAND, M.L.A., in the presence of —



DAVID BRAND

[L.S.]



C. W. Court

Minister for Industrial Development.



SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED

for and on behalf of LESLIE SALT CO.

by its duly authorised officer in the

presence of —

Harry E. Kellogg

[L.S.]

Secretary

SHELDON ALLEN

President.



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Notes

1



This is a compilation of the Leslie Solar Salt Industry Agreement Act 1966 and

includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the

following table. The table also contains information about any reprint.



Compilation table

Short title



Number

and year



Assent



Commencement



Leslie Solar Salt Industry

Agreement Act 1966



14 of 1966



17 Oct 1966



17 Oct 1966



Reprint 1: The Leslie Solar Salt Industry Agreement Act 1966 as at 1 Aug 2003

Standardisation of

Formatting Act 2010 s. 4

and 51

2

3



19 of 2010



28 Jun 2010



11 Sep 2010 (see s. 2(b) and

Gazette 10 Sep 2010 p. 4341)



Repealed by the Interpretation Act 1984.

Marginal notes in the agreement have been represented as bold headnotes in this

reprint but that does not change their status as marginal notes.



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Defined terms



Defined terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined.

The list is not part of the law.]



Defined term

Provision(s)

the Agreement .................................................................................................. 2(1)



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