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Repeal of Mah. Ord. I of 1968 and saving. THE SCHEDULE. 1968 : Mah.V] 1968 : Mah. V] 1 MAHARASHTRA ACT No. V OF 1968.1 [THE BOMBAY QUEEN VICTORIA SITE (AND ADJOINING LAND UTILIZATION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXCHANGES OF THE OVERSEAS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE) ACT, 1968]. [19th March 1968] An Act to make provision for placing the Queen Victoria statue site at Bombay and certain land adjacent thereto at the disposal of the Government of India for setting up of Satellite Telecommunications Exchanges of the Overseas Communications Service and for that purpose to amend the Bombay municipal Corporation Act and to take power to make certain changes in the Development Plan, Development Control Rules and Building Regulations, etc. WHEREAS, by Section 89-B of the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, all the estate, right, title and interest of Government in and to the statue of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the site thereof in the Esplanade Road at Bombay were vested in the Municipal Corporation and it was provided that the, said statue and the said site shall thereafter, be held by the Corporation in trust as a public monument; AND WHEREAS, the said statue (along with other statues of foreign sovereigns and administrators) has been removed from the said site, on the 12th day of August 1965; AND WHEREAS, the purpose for which the site was vested and the trust was created, no longer exist; AND WHEREAS, it is expedient that the said trust be revoked and extinguished and the said site which is vested in the Corporation therefor be divested from the Corporation and revested in the State Government; AND WHEREAS, the said site and certain land adjacent thereto are immediately required for th setting up of Satellite Telecommunications Exchanges of the Overseas Communications Service for participating in the Global Satellite Communications System beirsgset up for the carriage of international public communications by the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortiui (INTELSAT) consisting of 60 nations (of which India Is a member) who are signatories to an agreement fr setting up a global comnunications satellite system; AND WHEREAS, the said site and the land adjacent thereto are most suitable for the said Excbanges; being within the required distance of the Waudby Road Exchange through which the messages and information received, will be distributed throughout India; AND WHEREAS, it is necessary to make immediate provision for placing the said site of the Queen’s statue aforesaid and certain land adjacent thereto at the disposal of the Government of India in the Ministry of Communications for the aforesaid purpose, for the immediate commencement of construction of the Exchanges, and also to make consequential and supplemental provisions 1For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see. Maharashtra Government Gazette, 1968, Part- V. Extra pge 97. Bom. III of 1888. 1 [1968 : Mah. V 2 Bombay Queen Victoria statue site (and adjoining land utilization for construction of Satellite Telecommunications Exchanges of the Overseas Communications Service) Act, 1968. Short titte and com- mencement. (including any changes which may be necessary in the Development Plan for Greater Bombay, the Development Control Rules, the Municipal Corporation Building Regulations and in matters related thereto), for enabling the speedy construction and efficient working thereafter, of the Exchanges aforesaid ; It is hereby enacted in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :–