Western Australian Consolidated Acts[s. 3(1)]
[Heading amended by No. 19 of 2010
s. 4.]
THIS AGREEMENT is made the 19th day of November 1992
BETWEEN
THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (“the State”) and MORLEY SHOPPING
CENTRE PTY LIMITED (A.C.N. 002 154 458) of 800 Toorak Road,
Tooronga, Melbourne, Victoria (“MSC”) and THE COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED (A.C.N. 004 405 556) of 330 Collins
Street, Melbourne, Victoria (“CML”).
RECITALS
A. MSC and CML in joint venture propose to
undertake the Morley Redevelopment.
B. The State for the purpose of promoting
employment opportunity and development in Western Australia has agreed to
assist, and at the request of the City to facilitate the City to assist, the
Morley Redevelopment as set out in this Agreement.
OPERATIVE PART WHEREBY THE PARTIES AGREE as follows —
1. DEFINITIONS
In this Agreement unless the contrary intention
appears or the context otherwise requires —
“advise” , “agree” ,
“apply” , “approve” , “authorise” ,
“certify” , “consent” , “direct” ,
“inform” , “nominate” , “notice” ,
“notify” , “request” , “require” , or
“specify” means advise, agree, apply, approve, authorise, certify,
consent, direct, inform, nominate, notice, notify, request, require, or
specify in writing as the case may be and any inflexion or derivation of any
of those words has a corresponding meaning;
“City” means the City of Bayswater, a
municipality and body corporate under the Local Government Act 1960 ;
“ Concept Plans” means the plans
respectively described as —
•
a site plan (drawing number A001)
•
a ground floor plan (drawing number A020)
•
a first floor plan (drawing number A021)
copies of which have
been signed by the parties for the purpose of identification;
“CML” means The Colonial Mutual Life
Assurance Society Limited its successors and permitted assigns;
“CPI” means the Consumer Price Index
compiled by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Perth (Capital City) (All
Groups) or any substitute therefor accepted by the Government of the
Commonwealth of Australia from time to time provided that:
(a) if
the CPI Index Number base adopted by the Australian Statistician for the CPI
Index Number is at any time updated the CPI Index Number is to be
appropriately adjusted from time to time;
(b) if
at any time the Consumer Price Index is discontinued, there is to be
substituted therefor the alternative method of computing changes in the cost
of living which is mutually agreed between the State and the Joint Venturers
during the period of 30 days after written notice given by either the
State or the Joint Venturers to the other, or failing agreement, which in the
opinion of an expert appointed by the President for the time being of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants (Western Australian Division) at the
request of the State or the Joint Venturers or both of them most closely
reflects changes in the cost of living for the Perth Metropolitan Area (the
costs of that expert being borne by the State and the Joint Venturers in equal
shares); and
(c) if
any alternative index is determined in accordance with paragraph (b) and
that index is at any time thereafter discontinued, the reference to the CPI
means from time to time the index determined subject to and in accordance with
the provisions of paragraph (b);
“CPI Index Number” means the Index
Number compiled and issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the CPI
for and in respect of a particular CPI Quarter;
“CPI Quarter” means the respective
three monthly periods adopted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the
compilation and issue of the CPI;
“Crown” means the Crown in right of
the State of Western Australia;
“Crown Grant” means a Crown Grant
under the Land Act ;
“Development Area” means that part of
the land within the stippled border on the Plan being —
(a) the
freehold land, particulars of which are set out in Schedule 2 ;
(b)
Reserve 40963 (Swan Locations 11235 and 11236);
(c) the
land cross hatched and marked “ROAD” on the Plan;
(d) the
land stippled and marked “JOHNSMITH STREET” on the Plan; and
(e) the
Water Authority Land
as to which the Joint
Venturers are for the time being registered as the proprietors of an estate,
either in fee simple or leasehold;
“Dollars” or $ means amounts expressed
in Australian currency;
“Johnsmith Road Reserve” means the
land described in paragraph (d) of the definition of the Development
Area;
“Joint Venturers” means MSC and CML
and any person to whom the rights of MSC and CML are assigned in accordance
with the provisions of clause 16;
“ Land Act” means the Land
Act 1933 ;
“Minister” means the Minister in the
Government of the State for the time being responsible (under whatever title)
for the administration of the ratifying Act;
“Morley Shopping Centre” means the
Shopping Centre of that name as now on the land, or part of the land,
described in Schedule 2;
“Morley Redevelopment” or “the
Redevelopment” means the redevelopment of the Morley Shopping Centre in
accordance with the text in Schedule 3 and the Concept Plans, as amended
from time to time by Agreement between the State and the Joint Venturers;
“MSC” means Morley Shopping Centre
Pty. Limited, its successors and permitted assigns;
“parties” means the State and the
Joint Venturers, and
“party” is a reference to any of them;
“Plan” means Department of Land 4
Administration Miscellaneous Diagram 347 a copy of which is
Schedule 1 to this Agreement;
“Project Commencement Date” means the
commencement date notified to the Minister pursuant to clause 4(1);
“Project Completion” means completion
of the Redevelopment in accordance with this Agreement to the state where the
whole of the Morley Shopping Centre, as so redeveloped, is capable of
occupation for its intended purpose;
“ratifying Act” means the Bill
referred to in clause 3 when that Bill is passed and comes into operation
as an Act as contemplated by that clause;
“Redeveloped Shopping Centre” means
the Morley Shopping Centre as redeveloped and expanded in accordance with this
Agreement;
“Russell Street Reserve” means the
land described in paragraphs (b) and (c) of the definition of the
Development Area;
“State” includes the authorities and
instrumentalities of the State of Western Australia;
“Statutory Requirements” means all
approvals, consents, permits, or licences necessary for the purposes of the
Redevelopment from the State, any government department, authority,
instrumentality or local government authority, and includes, without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, all approvals, consents, permits, and
licences, for engineering drawings, construction plans, earthworks and
structures necessary for the purposes of the Redevelopment;
“subsidiary legislation” includes any
proclamation, regulation, rule, by-law, order, notice, rule of court, town
planning scheme, resolution, or other instrument, made under any Act of the
State or of the Commonwealth of Australia or subsidiary legislation for the
time being in force and having legislative effect;
“this Agreement” means this Agreement
(including its Recitals and Schedules) whether in its original form or as from
time to time added to varied or amended;
“Water Authority” means the body
corporate known as the Water Authority of Western Australia established by the
Water Authority Act 1984 ;
“Water Authority Land” means the land
described in Schedule 4;
“written law” has the same meaning as
is given to that term in the Interpretation Act 1984.
2. INTERPRETATION
In this Agreement unless the contrary intention
appears —
(a)
power given under any clause other than clause 19 to extend any period or
date is without prejudice to the power of the Minister under clause 19 ;
(b) the
plural includes the singular and vice versa and any gender includes every
other gender;
(c)
reference to —
•
a clause is to a clause of this Agreement;
•
a subclause is to a subclause of the clause in which the reference
occurs;
•
a paragraph is to a paragraph of the clause or subclause, as the case
may be, in which the reference occurs;
(d)
clause headings do not affect the interpretation or construction of this
Agreement;
(e) a
reference to an Act includes the amendments to that Act for the time being in
force and also any Act passed in substitution for it and the subsidiary
legislation for the time being in force under it; and
(f) a
reference to a person includes a corporation and a body politic.
3. RATIFICATION AND OPERATION
(1) The State shall
introduce and sponsor a Bill in the Parliament of Western Australia to ratify
this Agreement and endeavour to secure its passage as an Act prior to
11 December 1992 or such later date as the parties may agree.
(2) The provisions of
this Agreement other than this clause 3 shall not come into operation
until the Bill referred to in subclause (1) has been passed by the
Parliament of Western Australia and the provisions of that Bill ratifying this
Agreement come into operation as an Act.
(3) If before
11 December 1992 or such later date as may be agreed pursuant to
subclause (1) the provisions of the Bill referred to in that subclause
ratifying this Agreement have not commenced to operate as an Act then unless
the parties otherwise agree this Agreement shall then cease and terminate and
none of the parties shall have any claim against any of the others of them
with respect to any matter or thing antecedent to, or arising out of or done,
performed, or omitted to be done or performed, under this Agreement.
(4) On the provisions
of the Bill referred to in subclause (1) ratifying this Agreement
commencing to operate as an Act this Agreement shall operate and take effect.
4. THE REDEVELOPMENT
(1) The Joint
Venturers shall on or before 30 April 1993 (or such later date as
the Minister may allow pursuant to clause 19 ) notify the Minister that
the Joint Venturers —
(a) will
proceed; or
(b) will
not proceed
with the Redevelopment
and shall, if the Joint Venturers notify the Minister that they will proceed
with the Redevelopment, by the same notice advise the Minister as to the time
programme for the commencement (which must be a date not later than
1 August 1993) and completion (which must be a date not later than
1 August 1996) of the Redevelopment.
(2) If the Joint
Venturers —
(a)
notify the Minister pursuant to subclause (1) that the Joint Venturers
will not proceed with the Redevelopment; or
(b) fail
to notify the Minister as required by subclause (1) by the due date
this Agreement
thereupon cease and terminate.
5. OBLIGATION TO CONSTRUCT
(1) If the Joint
Venturers notify the Minister pursuant to clause 4(1) that the Joint
Venturers will proceed with the Redevelopment the Joint Venturers shall,
subject to Statutory Requirements and applicable laws, proceed with the
Redevelopment to completion without material alteration and in accordance with
the Redevelopment timetable as notified to the Minister pursuant to
clause 4(1).
(2) The Joint
Venturers shall from time to time at the request of the Minister inform the
Minister of any details or information in relation to the Redevelopment,
including but without limitation, the progress of the Redevelopment, as the
Minister may reasonably request.
(3) The Joint
Venturers shall to the extent it is within the power of the Joint Venturers to
do so permit the State by its officers, employees, agents, and nominees to
enter upon the Development Area pending Project Completion to inspect the
progress of the Redevelopment, and the Joint Venturers shall afford those
officers, employees, agents and nominees such assistance and facilities as
they may reasonably require.
6. LICENCE TO ENTER
(1) The State hereby
grants to the Joint Venturers an exclusive licence for the Joint Venturers and
their agents contractors and employees to enter, with all necessary vehicles
plant and equipment, upon the Russell Street Reserve and the Johnsmith Road
Reserve for the purpose of carrying out the Redevelopment.
(2) The licence
granted by subclause (1) shall take effect one month after the Project
Commencement Date or such earlier date as the Minister may notify to the Joint
Venturers and shall automatically terminate, without the necessity for any
notice or any other action by any of the parties —
(a) upon
termination of this Agreement;
(b) as
to any particular area subject of the licence, upon that area
being —
(i)
leased to the Joint Venturers pursuant to clause 7 ;
(ii)
granted to the Joint Venturers in fee simple pursuant to
clause 8 ; or
(c) on
the completion of all works necessary to implement the Redevelopment,
whichever occurs
soonest.
7. CROWN LEASE
Upon Project Completion, or at such earlier time
as the Minister considers appropriate, the State shall grant or cause to be
granted to the Joint Venturers a lease of Russell Street Reserve, as then
surveyed, under section 117 of the Land Act but including a right or
option on the part of the Joint Venturers to acquire freehold title, in whole
or in part, to the Russell Street Reserve such lease except as otherwise
provided in this Agreement to be subject to the Land Act but in the form set
out in Schedule 5 with such variations as circumstances may render
necessary and as are agreed to by the parties.
8. CROWN GRANT
Upon the Project Completion, or at such earlier
time as the Minister considers appropriate, and subject to payment to the
State of $200,000.00 and of all other usual and applicable fees the State
shall cause to be issued to and in the name of the Joint Venturers as tenants
in common in equal shares a Crown Grant of the Johnsmith Road Reserve subject
to the exceptions reservations and conditions usual in Crown Grants but
otherwise free from encumbrances.
9. EASEMENTS AND OTHER LAND RIGHTS
The State shall in relation to the Water Authority
Land cause the Water Authority to grant to the Joint
Venturers —
(a) upon
Project Completion or at such earlier time as the Minister after consultation
with the Water Authority considers appropriate —
(i)
an easement over the Water Authority Land in the terms
set out in Part A of Schedule 6 ; and
(ii)
an option to purchase the Water Authority Land in the
terms set out in Part B of Schedule 6 ;
(b) a
licence to enter the Water Authority Land pending grant of the easement
referred to in paragraph (a) for the purpose of carrying out those
improvements in relation to the Redevelopment as may be agreed between the
Water Authority and the Joint Venturers.
10. SURVEYS
Any surveys of land required for the purposes of
this Agreement within the Development Area shall be carried out at the expense
of the Joint Venturers.
11. WATER RATES
(1) Water Rates
payable to the Water Authority in relation to the Development Area will be
amounts determined in accordance with the succeeding provisions of this
clause.
(2) If Project
Completion occurs in the Rating Year 1994/1995, as is anticipated, the Water
Rates for that Rating Year will, subject to subclause (4) ,
be —
(a) If
the GRV as at 1 July 1993 is less than or equal to $22,000,000, an
amount determined by applying the rate in the $ of GRV specified in
subclause (9) to the GRV as at 1 July 1993 less $500,000.00; or
(b) if
the GRV at 1 July 1993 exceeds $22,000,000, $1,500,000 increased by
the amount by which the GRV exceeds $22,000,000 multiplied by .0908.
(3) If Project
Completion occurs in the Rating Year 1995/1996 or in a later Rating Year, then
the Water Rates in the Rating Year in which Project Completion occurs will,
subject to subclause (4), be the Base Amount increased by the same
percentage as the percentage increase in the CPI which occurs during the
period 31 March 1994 to 31 March in the year preceding Project
Completion.
(4) If Project
Completion occurs otherwise than on the first day of a Rating Year, Water
Rates payable in respect of the Rating Year in which Project Completion occurs
shall be the aggregate of —
(a)
Water Rates which but for the provisions of this Agreement are payable in
respect of that Rating Year;
(b) that
proportion of the amount by which the Base Amount, or as the case may be, of
the Base Amount as increased by the operation of subclause (3), exceeds
the amount referred to in paragraph (a) as is the same as the proportion
which the number of days from Project Completion to the end of the then
current Rating Year bears to 365.
(5) (a)
Subject to the succeeding provisions of this
clause, in the 19 Rating Years following the Rating Year in which Project
Completion occurs the Water Rates payable shall be the amount payable in the
preceding Rating Year increased by the same percentage as the annual
percentage increase in the CPI during the immediately preceding Rating Year;
(b) for
the purposes of subclause 5(a) —
(i)
the increase in the CPI will be calculated for the period
of 12 months which ends on the 31 March which immediately precedes the
commencement of the relevant Rating Year;
(ii)
the Water Rates payable in respect of the Rating Year in
which Project Completion occurs shall be taken to be the Base Amount, or as
the case may be, the Base Amount as increased by the operation of
subclause (3).
(6) If during the
period specified in subclause 5(a) the Redeveloped Shopping Centre is
further expanded by the construction of a new building or other development
(the “New Development” ), Water Rates payable in respect of the
Development Area will be increased by an amount determined in accordance with
the succeeding provisions of this clause.
(7) The amount of the
increase in the Water Rates (“the Incremental Increase” ) will be
(a) - (b) where —
(a) =
Water Rates determined in accordance with the GRV
of the Development Area following completion of the New Development and
calculated on the basis of the scale of Water Rates then applicable for
commercial properties generally within the Perth Metropolitan Area ( the
“Current Scale”)
(b) =
Water Rates determined in accordance with the GRV
of the Development Area prior to the New Development and calculated on the
basis of the Current Scale.
For the avoidance of
doubt, the calculation in this subclause will not include the concession in
respect of Water Rates specified in subclause (2).
(8) If and when an
Incremental Increase occurs —
(a) for
the purpose of calculating, pursuant to subclause (5) , the Water Rates
payable in respect of the Rating Year following that in which the Incremental
Increase occurred and subsequent Rating Years the full amount of the
Incremental Increase is deemed to have been payable in the Rating Year in
which it occurred;
(b)
unless the New Development giving rise to the Incremental Increase was
completed on the first day of a Rating Year, in which case the whole of the
Incremental Increase is to be added to Water Rates payable, the Water Rates
payable in respect of the Rating Year in which the New Development was
completed shall increase by only that proportion of the Incremental Increase
as is the same as the proportion which the number of days from the date of
completion of the New Development to the end of the then current Rating Year
bears to 365.
(9) For the purpose of
subclause (2) the schedule of rates in the $ of GRV, expressed in cents,
is as follows —
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GRV |
Water |
Sewerage |
Drainage |
Total |
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up to $8,000 |
4.68 |
4.48 |
.70 |
9.86 |
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Next |
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greater than |
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(10) (a)
Water Rates payable pursuant to this clause shall
entitle the Joint Venturers to a water allowance free of charge, in each
Rating Year, of 400,000 kilolitres;
(b) If
in any Rating Year the quantity of water supplied to the Development Area by
the Water Authority exceeds the quantity specified in paragraph (a), the
Joint Venturers shall pay for the excess in accordance with any then
applicable written law.
(11) Nothing in this
clause affects Water Rates or other charges otherwise payable to the Water
Authority prior to Project Completion (including headworks charges).
(12) In this clause
and in clause 12 (where applicable) unless the contrary intention appears
or the context otherwise requires —
“Base Amount” means the amount
calculated pursuant to subclause (2) without reference to
subclause (4) ;
“completion” in relation to a New
Development means capable of occupation or use;
“GRV” means the gross rental value of
the Development Area following Project Completion as determined under the
Valuation of Land Act 1978 ;
“Rating Year” means a period
commencing on 1 July in a year and ending on 30 June in the following year and
if preceded by a reference to 2 calendar years means the period commencing on
1 July in the first of those years and ending on 30 June in the second of
those years;
“Water Rates” means charges in respect
of water supply, sewerage and drainage of the kind presently levied by the
Water Authority under —
(a) Part
2 of Division 1 of Schedule 1;
(b) Part
2 of Schedule 2; and
(c) Part
2 of Schedule 3
of the Water Authority
(Charges) By-Laws 1987 .
12. MUNICIPAL RATES
(1) Municipal Rates
payable to the City in relation to the Development Area will be amounts
determined in accordance with the succeeding provisions of this clause.
(2) Subject to
subclause (3) Municipal Rates for the Rating Year in which Project
Completion occurs will be the lesser of —
(a)
$700,000.00; and
(b) the
amount which would have been assessed for Municipal Rates on the basis of a
rate of .053692 of the GRV.
(3) If Project
Completion occurs otherwise than on the first day of a Rating Year, Municipal
Rates payable in respect of the Rating Year in which Project Completion occurs
shall be the aggregate of —
(a)
Municipal Rates which but for the provisions of this Agreement are payable in
respect of that Rating Year;
(b) that
proportion of the amount by which the Base Amount exceeds the amount referred
to in paragraph (a) as is the same as the proportion which the number of
days from Project Completion to the end of the then current Rating Year bears
to 365.
(4) (a)
In the 19 Rating Years following the Rating Year
in which Project Completion occurs, the Municipal Rates payable shall be the
amount payable in the preceding Rating Year increased by the same percentage
as the annual percentage increase in the CPI during the immediately preceding
Rating Year increased by the lesser of —
(i)
the same percentage of the annual percentage increase in
the CPI during the immediately preceding Rating Year; or
(ii)
the percentage increase in the City’s rates for
that year;
assuming the Municipal
Rates payable in the Rating Year in which Project Completion occurred were the
Base Amount;
(b) for
the purposes of subclause 4(a) the increase in the CPI will be calculated
for the period of 12 months which ends on the 31 March which immediately
precedes the commencement of the relevant Rating Year.
(5) In this
clause —
“Base Amount” means the amount
calculated pursuant to subclause (2) without regard to subclause (3)
;
“Municipal Rates” mean rates of the
kind presently levied by the City under Division 4 of Part XXV of
the Local Government Act 1960 .
13. STAMP DUTY
(1) Subject to
subclause (2) the State after the Project Commencement Date will upon
application by the Joint Venturers to the Minister, within 30 days after
receipt of the application, repay to the Joint Venturers stamp duty paid in
respect of the instruments evidencing the several transactions, particulars of
which are set out in Schedule 7 , necessary to establish the joint
venture referred to in Recital A.
(2) The amount repaid
pursuant to subclause (1) will not exceed $1,500,000.
14. MODIFICATION OF LAND ACT
(1) For the purposes
of this Agreement the Land Act is deemed to be modified by —
(a) the
inclusion of a power to grant the licence to enter granted by clause 6 ;
and
(b) the
inclusion of a power for the Minister for Lands to grant a lease under
section 117 of the Land Act in the form set out in Schedule 5 and,
in that lease or separately, to grant the right or option referred to in
clause 7 ; and
(c) the
inclusion of a power for the Governor to issue to the Joint Venturers the
Crown Grant referred to in clause 8 and, if the right or option referred
to in clause 5 is exercised, a Crown Grant of the land in respect of
which the right or option is exercised subject to the sub-lease granted
pursuant to clause 3(a) of Schedule 5 if the circumstances so
require.
(2) For the purposes
of subclause 1(c), the sublease referred to in that subclause shall be
deemed to survive the surrender or termination of the lease pursuant to which
it is granted.
15. USE OF LOCAL LABOUR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND
MATERIALS
(1) The Joint
Venturers shall in relation to the Redevelopment and for the purposes of this
Agreement —
(a)
except in those cases where the Joint Venturers can demonstrate it is
impracticable to do so, use labour available within Western Australia or if
such labour is not available then except in those cases where the Joint
Venturers can demonstrate that it is impracticable to do so, use labour
otherwise available within Australia;
(b) as
far as it is reasonable and economically practicable to do so use the services
of engineers, surveyors, architects and other professional consultants,
project managers, manufacturers, suppliers and contractors resident and
available within Western Australia or if such services are not available
within Western Australia then, as far as it is reasonable and economically
practicable to do so, use the services of such persons otherwise available
within Australia;
(c)
during design and when preparing specifications calling for tenders and
letting contracts for works materials plant equipment and supplies (which
shall at all times, except where it is impracticable to do so, use or be based
upon Australian Standards and Codes) ensure that suitably qualified Western
Australian and Australian suppliers manufacturers and contractors are given
fair and reasonable opportunity to tender or quote;
(d) give
proper consideration and where possible preference to suppliers manufacturers
and contractors located in Western Australia when letting contracts or placing
orders for works, materials, plant, equipment and supplies where price quality
delivery and service are equal to or better than that obtainable elsewhere or,
subject to the foregoing, give that consideration and where possible
preference to other suppliers manufacturers and contractors located in
Australia; and
(e) if
notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subclause a contract is to be
let or an order is to be placed with other than a Western Australian or
Australian supplier, manufacturer or contractor, give proper consideration and
where possible preference to tenders arrangements or proposals that include
Australian participation.
(2) Except as
otherwise agreed by the Minister the Joint Venturers shall in every contract
entered into with a third party for the supply of services labour works
materials plant equipment and supplies for the purposes of the Redevelopment,
require as a condition of such contract that such third party shall undertake
the same obligations as are referred to in subclause (1) and shall report
to the Joint Venturers concerning such third party’s implementation of
that condition.
(3) The Joint
Venturers shall submit a report to the Minister at monthly intervals or such
longer period as the Minister determines commencing from the date of this
Agreement concerning the Joint Venturers implementation of the provisions of
this clause together with a copy of any report received by the Joint Venturers
pursuant to subclause (2) during that month or longer period as the case
may be, but the Minister may agree that any such reports need not be provided
in respect of contracts of such kind or value as the Minister may from time to
time determine.
(4) The Joint
Venturers shall keep the Minister informed on a regular basis as determined by
the Minister from time to time or otherwise as required by the Minister during
the currency of this Agreement of any services (including any elements of
project investigation design and management) and any works materials plant
equipment and supplies that they may be proposing to obtain from or have
carried out or permit to be obtained from or carried out outside Australia in
relation to the Redevelopment together with their reasons therefor and shall
as and when required by the Minister consult with the Minister with respect
thereto.
16. ASSIGNMENT
(1) Subject to the
provisions of this clause a Joint Venturer may assign mortgage charge sub-let
or dispose of the whole or any part of the rights of the Joint Venturer under
this Agreement (including the Joint Venturer’s rights to or as the
holder of any lease, licence or easement) and of the obligations of the Joint
Venturer under this Agreement subject however to the consent of the Minister
in the case of an assignment mortgage charge sub-letting or disposition prior
to Project Completion and in the case of an assignment sub-letting or
disposition to the assignee sub-lessee or disponee (as the case may be)
executing in favour of the State (unless the Minister otherwise determines) a
Deed of Covenant in a form approved by the Minister to comply with and observe
and perform the provisions of this Agreement on the part of the Joint Venturer
to be complied with observed or performed in regard to the matter or matters
the subject of such assignment sub-letting or disposition.
(2) Notwithstanding
anything contained in or anything done under or pursuant to subclause (1)
each Joint Venturer 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 part of the Joint Venturers contained in
this Agreement but the Minister may agree to release a Joint Venturer from
such liability where the Minister considers such release will not be contrary
to the interests of the State.
17. VARIATION
(1) The parties may
from time to time by agreement add to substitute cancel or vary all or any of
the provisions of this Agreement or of any lease licence easement grant or
other title granted under or pursuant to this Agreement for the purpose of
more efficiently or satisfactorily implementing or facilitating any of the
objects of this Agreement.
(2) The Minister shall
cause any agreement made pursuant to subclause (1) in respect of any
addition substitution cancellation or variation of the provisions of this
Agreement to be laid on the Table of each House of Parliament within 12
sitting days next following its execution.
(3) Either House may,
within 12 sitting days of that House after the agreement has been laid before
it pass a resolution disallowing the agreement, but if after the last day on
which the agreement might have been disallowed neither House has passed such a
resolution the agreement shall have effect from and after that last day.
18. FORCE MAJEURE
(1) In this Agreement
force majeure means events or occurrences and the effects of them beyond the
reasonable control of the party claiming force majeure which affects the
ability of that party to observe and perform its obligations under this
Agreement, and includes war, invasion, riot, civil or military disturbances,
sabotage, strikes, picketing or other labour disputes or disturbances,
expropriation, lightning, fire, flood or threats of floods, earthquake, storm,
cyclone, explosion, governmental restrictions or other governmental actions or
inactions (unless such restrictions, actions, or inactions arise out of the
failure of the party affected to comply with any governmental requirement),
and orders or temporary or permanent injunctions of any duly constituted court
of competent jurisdiction or any duly authorised administrative agency or
officer (unless any such order or injunction was imposed by reason of the
failure of the party affected to observe and obey any legal requirement or
obligation under this Agreement), but does not include inability to obtain
finance on acceptable terms.
(2) If any party is
unable, wholly or in part, by reason of force majeure to carry out any
obligation on it, and notifies the other party that it wishes to claim that it
is affected by force majeure, the obligation shall be suspended so far as it
is affected by the force majeure during the period from the giving of the
notice that force majeure is claimed until the force majeure and the effects
of the force majeure cease. The notice claiming force majeure shall contain
the particulars of the force majeure, and so far as is known, the extent to
which the party claiming force majeure considers that it will be unable to
perform or be delayed in performing its obligations.
(3) A party affected
by force majeure shall take all reasonable steps to remedy or remove the force
majeure and the effect of it as quickly as possible.
(4) Where a party
gives a notice pursuant to this clause it shall thereafter during the
continuance of the force majeure at least every five days give notice to the
other party of the then probable extent to which it will be unable to perform
or be delayed in performing its obligations and of any significant changes
relative to the force majeure since it gave its last notice to the other
party.
19. POWER TO EXTEND PERIODS
Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement,
the Minister may at the request of the Joint Venturers from time to time
extend or further extend any period or vary or further vary any date referred
to in this Agreement for such period or to such later date as the Minister
thinks fit whether or not the period to be extended has expired or the date to
be varied has passed.
20. TERM
Subject to clause 19 , this Agreement will
automatically cease and terminate (subject however to the provisions of
clause 22 ) without the need for either party to give the other any
notice whatever, when the rights of all parties under this Agreement have been
exhausted or, as the case may be, all obligations of all parties under this
Agreement, have been performed, or in either case under any lease granted
pursuant to this Agreement.
21. TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
(1)
If —
(a)
(i) the Joint Venturers make
default which the State considers material in the due performance or
observance of any of the covenants or obligations of the Joint Venturers
contained in this Agreement on the part of the Joint Venturers to be performed
or observed; or
(ii)
the Joint Venturers abandon or repudiate this Agreement
or any operations which by this Agreement the Joint Venturers are obliged to
carry on,
and such default
repudiation or abandonment is not remedied or such operation resumed within a
period of 90 days after notice is given by the State as provided in
subclause (2) or, if the default or abandonment is referred to
arbitration, then within the period fixed by the arbitrator mentioned in
subclause (3 );
(b) a
Joint Venturer whilst entitled to the benefit of this Agreement goes into
liquidation (other than a voluntary liquidation for the purpose of
reconstruction to which the Minister has given prior written consent) and
unless within 3 months from the date of such liquidation the interest of
that Joint Venturer in this Agreement is assigned to an assignee or assignees
pursuant to clause 16 ; or
(c) The
Joint Venturers permanently cease to use and operate the Development Area as a
shopping centre
the State may by
notice to the Joint Venturers terminate this Agreement.
(2) The State in a
notice given by it under subclause (1) shall specify the nature of the
default or other grounds so entitling the State to exercise its right of
termination and where appropriate and known to the State the party or parties
responsible therefor and the State shall give the notice to the Joint
Venturers and all such assignees mortgagees chargees and disponees for the
time being of the Joint Venturer’s rights to or in favour of whom or by
whom an assignment mortgage charge or disposition has been effected in terms
of clause 16 whose name and address for service of notices has previously
been notified to the State by the Joint Venturers or by any such assignee,
mortgagee, chargee or disponee.
(3) If the Joint
Venturers contest the alleged default, abandonment or repudiation referred to
in paragraph (a) of subclause (1) the Joint Venturers shall within
60 days after notice is given by the State as provided in
subclause (2) refer the matter in dispute to arbitration, and if the
matter in dispute is decided against the Joint Venturers shall comply with the
arbitration award within a reasonable time to be fixed by that award but if
the arbitrator finds that there was a bona fide dispute and that the Joint
Venturers were not dilatory in pursuing the arbitration, the time for
compliance with the arbitration award shall not be less than 90 days from
the date of such award.
(4) If the default
referred to in paragraph (a) of subclause (1) is not remedied after
receipt of the notice referred to in subclause (1) or within the time
fixed by the arbitration award as provided in subclause (3) , the State
instead of terminating this Agreement because of the default may itself remedy
the default or cause it to be remedied (for which purpose the State by its
agents, employees or otherwise shall have full power to enter upon and to make
use of all plant machinery and installations upon land owned or occupied by
the Joint Venturers) and the actual costs and expenses incurred by the State
in remedying or causing the default to be remedied shall be payable by the
Joint Venturers to the State on demand.
22. EFFECT OF TERMINATION
(1) On the cessation
or termination of this Agreement whether pursuant to clause 21 or
otherwise —
(a)
except as otherwise agreed by the Minister the rights of the Joint Venturers
in or under this Agreement shall thereupon cease and terminate but without
prejudice to the liability of either of the parties in respect of any
antecedent breach or default under this Agreement or in respect of any
indemnity given under this Agreement;
(b) the
Joint Venturers shall forthwith pay to the State —
(i)
all moneys which may then have become payable or accrued
due; and
(ii)
if the cessation or termination occurs prior to Project
Completion an amount equal to the amount repaid by the State pursuant to
clause 13 ;
(c) If
the cessation or termination occurs prior to Project Completion the State, if
it is practicable to do so, will, if the City consents, procure that the
Russell Street Reserve, other than that part of the Russell Street Reserve
referred to in paragraph (c) of the definition of the Development Area,
is created as a Reserve under the Land Act for the purpose of parking and
vested in the City;
(d)
except as specified in this subclause and as otherwise provided in this
Agreement, neither of the parties shall have claim against the other in
respect of any matter or thing in or arising out of this Agreement.
(2) Nothing in
subclause (1) shall affect any Crown Grant or lease issued under this
Agreement prior to the cessation or termination of this Agreement.
23. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to
exempt the Joint Venturers from compliance with any requirement in connection
with the protection of the environment arising out of or incidental to
activities of the Joint Venturers under or contemplated by this Agreement that
may be made under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 . The Joint
Venturers shall comply with the conditions attached to any environmental
approval as though those conditions were expressly set out in this Agreement
as obligations of the Joint Venturers.
24. APPLICATION OF STATUTE LAW
Except as expressly set out in this Agreement,
nothing in this Agreement exempts the Joint Venturers from the provisions of
any applicable Act of the Commonwealth of Australia or any subsidiary
legislation under any such Act, or from the provisions of any applicable
written law including, without limitation, Statutory Requirements.
25. INDEMNITY
The Joint Venturers indemnify and will keep
indemnified the State and its employees, agents and contractors in respect of
all actions, claims, demands, or costs of third parties, arising out of or in
connection with any works carried out by or on behalf of the Joint Venturers
pursuant to this Agreement or relating to operations of the Joint Venturers
under or contemplated by this Agreement or arising out of or in connection
with the construction or use by the Joint Venturers or their employees,
agents, contractors, or assignees of the Joint Venturer’s works or
services the subject of or contemplated by this Agreement or the plant
apparatus or equipment installed in connection therewith.
26. ARBITRATION
(1) Subject to
subclause (4) any dispute or difference between the State and the Joint
Venturers arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, the
construction of this Agreement or as to the rights duties or liabilities of
either the State or the Joint Venturers 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 of a single arbitrator to be appointed
(if the parties to the arbitration do not agree upon an arbitrator) by the
President for the time being of the Law Society of W.A. (Inc.) at the request
of either the State or the Joint Venturers. Any such arbitration shall be
conducted in accordance with the provisions of the
Commercial Arbitration Act 1985 and notwithstanding section 20(1) of
that Act each party may be represented at the arbitration by a duly qualified
legal practitioner or other representative.
(2) Except where
otherwise provided in this Agreement, the provisions of this clause do not
apply to any case where the State, the Minister or any other Minister in the
Government of the State is by this Agreement given either expressly or
impliedly a discretionary power.
(3) The arbitrator of
any submission to arbitration under this Agreement is hereby empowered upon
the application of either of the parties to grant in the name of the Minister
any interim extension of any period or variation of any date referred to in
this Agreement which having regard to the circumstances may reasonably be
required in order to preserve the rights of that party or of the parties
hereunder and an award may in the name of the Minister grant any further
extension or variation for that purpose.
(4) Where in respect
of any matter that might otherwise be referred to arbitration under this
clause the Joint Venturers have a right of appeal under the
Town Planning and Development Act 1928 , the matter shall be determined
in accordance with that Act and the provisions of subclause (1) do not
apply.
27. NOTICES
(1) Any notice to be
given under this Agreement shall be hand delivered or sent by facsimile
transmission or by prepaid post addressed as follows —
The State
The Minister for State Development
Capita Centre
197 St George’s Terrace
PERTH WA 6000
Facsimile: (09) 327 5542
The Joint Venturers
Morley Shopping Centre Pty. Limited
800 Toorak
Road
Tooronga
Victoria 3146
Attention: General Manager,
New
Business — Property
Facsimile: (03) 829 3300
The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited
330 Collins Street
Melbourne 3000
Attention: Director —
Property Investment
— Colonial Mutual Investment
Management
Facsimile: (03) 641 8396
(2) Any notice so
delivered or mailed or sent by facsimile transmission shall be deemed to be
duly given and received at the actual time of delivery, or in the case of a
facsimile transmission on the day after despatch.
(3) Any party may
change its address for receipt of notices, or facsimile number, at any time by
giving notice to the other parties in the manner provided in this clause.
(4) Any notice may be
signed on behalf of the party giving it by any duly authorised representative,
including its solicitors, or in the case of the State, if signed by the
Minister or by a senior officer in the Public Service of the State acting at
the direction of or under any delegation from the Minister.
28. PROPER LAW AND FORUM
This Agreement shall be interpreted according to
the law for the time being in force in Western Australia and the parties
hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of
Western Australia and courts hearing appeals from those courts.
SCHEDULE 1
DEVELOPMENT AREA PLAN
Reference: Clause 1
Definition of
Development Area
SCHEDULE 2
MORLEY REDEVELOPMENT LAND
PARTICULARS OF FREEHOLD LAND
Reference: Clause 1
Definition of
Development Area
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 200 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 946
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 201 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 947
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 202 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 948
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 203 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 949
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 204 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 950
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 205 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 951
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 206 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 952
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 207 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 953
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 208 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 954
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 209 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 955
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 1 the subject of Diagram 29399 being
the whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1278 Folio 955
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being part of Lot 1004 on Plan 3263
(Sheet 1) being the whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1772
Folio 649
Portion of Swan Location T and being part of Lot 1152 on Plan 3401 being the
whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1863 Folio 210
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 1123 on Plan 3401 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1848 Folio 251
Portion of Swan Location T and being part of Lot 1122 on Plan 3401 being the
whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1642 Folio 958
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 4 on Diagram 31786 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1487 Folio 425
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 101 the subject of Diagram 39772
being the whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 523 Folio 173A
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 50 the subject of Diagram 45128 being
the whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1354 Folio 259
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 6 on Diagram 35665 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 472 Folio 103A
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 401 the subject of Diagram 45121
being the whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1354 Folio 570
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 498 on Diagram 63581 being the whole
of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1628 Folio 570
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 2 on Diagram 39472 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1494 Folio 090
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 3 on Diagram 24053 being the whole
of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1227 Folio 014 together with a
right of carriageway over the portion of Lot 1 on the said Diagram as set out
in Transfer 8606/1959
SCHEDULE 3
REDEVELOPMENT TEXT
Reference: Clause 1
Definition of Morley
Redevelopment
The redevelopment of the Morley Shopping Centre will comprise the demolition
and building works necessary for —
(1) the upgrading and renovation of the K-Mart
Store;
(2) the construction of —
(a) a
new Coles Supermarket having a floor area of approximately 3,500 square
metres;
(b) a
new Myer Department Store having a floor area of approximately 18,000 square
metres;
(c) a
cinema complex having a floor area of approximately 4,000 square metres;
and
(d) new
specialty shops having a combined floor area of approximately 15,000 square
metres
and otherwise generally as is necessary so as to enable the redevelopment of
the Morley Shopping Centre in a manner substantially similar to that shown on
the Concept Plans.
SCHEDULE 4
WATER AUTHORITY LAND
Reference: Clause 1
Definition and
Clause 9
Portion of Swan Location T being part of the Land on Diagram 27251 and being
the whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 280 Folio 77A
Portion of Swan Location T being part of Lot 1152 on Plan 3401 and being the
whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1255 Folio 789
SCHEDULE 5
SECTION 117 LEASE
MORLEY SHOPPING CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT ACT 1992
Lease No.
ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other
Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. To all to whom these
presents shall come, GREETING: Know ye that:
WHEREAS:
A. By Section 117 of the Land Act power is
given to the Minister for Lands to lease any town, suburban or village lands
on such terms as the Minister may think fit.
B. Pursuant to the provisions of the Agreement,
the State of Western Australia agreed to grant this lease, or cause this lease
to be granted to the Lessee.
NOW, THEREFORE, We of our especial Grace, and in consideration of the
premises, and also in consideration of the rents hereinafter reserved and on
the part of the Lessee to be paid, and in exercise of the powers given by the
Act, do by these presents demise and lease to the Lessee the leased premises
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the leased premises subject to the powers, reservations,
and conditions herein and in the Act, contained, and with all the rights,
powers, and privileges conferred by the Act as are applicable hereto, unto the
Lessee, for the Term YIELDING AND PAYING therefor during the Term unto Us, our
Heirs and Successors, the yearly rent of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) payable
in advance
commencing on the day of
19 and thereafter on each subsequent anniversary of that date PROVIDED,
nevertheless, that it shall at all times be lawful for Us, Our Heirs and
Successors or for any person or persons acting in that behalf by Our or Their
authority, to resume and enter upon possession of any part of the leased
premises which it may at any time by Us, Our Heirs and Successors, be deemed
necessary to resume for roads, tramways, railways, railway stations, bridges,
canals, towings paths, harbour or river improvement works, drainage or
irrigation works, quarries, and generally for any other works or purposes of
public use, utility, or convenience, and for the purpose of exercising the
power to search for minerals and gems hereinafter reserved, and such land so
resumed to hold to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, as of Our or Their former
estate, without making to the Lessee, or any person claiming under the Lessee,
any compensation in respect of the resumption of a three metre wide strip
along the Russell Street boundary of the leased premises, AND we do hereby
save and reserve to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, all mines of gold, silver,
copper, tin or other metals, ore, and mineral, or other substances containing
metals and all gems and precious stones, and coal or mineral oil, and all
phosphatic substances in and under the leased premises, with full liberty at
all times to search and dig for and carry away the same; and for that purpose
enter upon land or any part thereof; AND We do hereby save and reserve to Us,
Our Heirs and Successors, all petroleum (as defined in the Petroleum
Act 1967 ) on or below the surface of the leased premises with the right
reserved to Us, Our Heirs and Successors and persons authorised by Us, Our
Heirs and Successors to have access to the leased premises for the purposes of
searching for and for the operations of obtaining petroleum in any part of the
leased premises subject to and in accordance with the Petroleum Act 1967
or any Act repealing and enacted in substitution for that Act: PROVIDED ALSO
but subject to clause 3(c) that if the Lessee shall, during the Term, at
any time make default in payment of the rent hereby reserved, or shall fail or
cease to use, hold, and enjoy the leased premises for the purposes set out in
this lease, or shall fail or neglect to comply with, perform or fulfill all or
any of the provisions of this lease or the conditions or provisions of the
Act, it shall thereupon be lawful for Us, Our Heirs and Successors into and
upon the leased premises, or any part thereof in the name of the whole to
re-enter, and the same to have again, repossess and enjoy as if this deed had
never been executed, without making any compensation to the Lessee.
CONDITIONS
The Lessee hereby covenants and agrees with Us, Our Heirs and Successors and
with the Minister for Lands as follows —
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
(1) Definitions
In this lease unless the contrary intention
appears —
“Agreement” means the agreement
between the State and the Lessee ratified by the
Morley Shopping Centre Redevelopment Agreement Act 1992 ;
“Business Day” means a day on which
trading banks are open for trading in both Western Australia and Victoria;
“CPI” means the Consumer Price Index
compiled by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Perth (Capital City) (All
Groups) or any substitute therefor accepted by the Government of the
Commonwealth of Australia from time to time provided that:
(a) if
the CPI Index Number base adopted by the Australian Statistician for the CPI
Index Number is at any time updated the CPI Index Number is to be
appropriately adjusted from time to time;
(b) if
at any time the Consumer Price Index is discontinued, there is to be
substituted therefor the alternative method of computing changes in the cost
of living which is mutually agreed in writing between the Lessor and the
Lessee during the period of 20 Business Days after written notice given by
either the Lessor or the Lessee to the other, or failing agreement, which in
the opinion of an expert appointed by the President for the time being of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants (Western Australian Division) at the
request of the Lessor or the Lessee or both of them most closely reflects
changes in the cost of living for the Perth Metropolitan Area (the costs of
that expert being borne by the Lessor and the Lessee in equal shares); and
(c) if
any alternative index is determined in accordance with subclause (b) and
that index is at any time thereafter discontinued, the reference to the CPI
means from time to time the index determined subject to and in accordance with
the provisions of subclause (b);
“CPI Index Number” means the Index
Number compiled and issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the CPI
for and in respect of a particular CPI Quarter;
“CPI Quarter” means the respective
three monthly periods adopted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the
compilation and issue of the CPI;
“City” means the City of Bayswater, a
municipality and body corporate under the Local Government Act 1960 ;
“Crown” means the Crown in right of
the State of Western Australia;
“Institute of Valuers” means the
Australian Institute of Valuers and Land Economists (Inc) (Western Australian
Division);
“ Land Act” means the Land
Act 1933 ;
“leased premises” means the natural
surface and the land below the natural surface to depth of 30 metres of the
land described in the First Schedule together with all structures buildings
improvements and appurtenances now or hereafter thereon other than works of a
public nature;
“Lessee” means The Colonial Mutual
Life Assurance Society Limited (ACN 004 405 556) of 330 Collins
Street Melbourne, Victoria ( “CML” ) and Morley Shopping Centre
Pty Limited (CAN 002 154 458) of 800 Toorak Road, Tooronga,
Melbourne Victoria ( “MSC” ) as tenants in common as to one
undivided half share each and the successors and permitted assigns of MSC and
CML pursuant to clause 2(r) to the intent that all covenants and
obligations imposed upon and powers given by MSC and CML shall be binding upon
and enforceable against MSC and CML and the successors and permitted assigns
of the rights of MSC and CML under this lease;
“Lessor” means Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth the Second Her heirs and successors in right of the State;
“Local” or “Public
Authority” means any municipality Health Board, Health Commissioner,
Town Planning Board, Water Supply Sewerage and Drainage Board and every and
any other board department commission person or authority whatsoever now or
hereafter exercising or entitled to exercise under any present or future Act
(Federal or State) any control or jurisdiction over or power in connection
with the leased premises or any part thereof or the owner or occupier thereof
and every officer or person acting under the authority of the local or public
authority or under the authority of any Act or By-Law made thereunder;
“Market Value” means, in relation to
the leased premises or the Option Premises, the market value of the leased
premises or the Option Premises as the case may be determined having regard to
the following:
(a) a
willing, but not anxious, buyer and seller;
(b) a
reasonable period in which to market and then negotiate a sale of the relevant
property, taking into account the nature of the property and the state of the
market;
(c) that
the value of the property will remain static during the period referred to in
subclause (b);
(d) that
the relevant property has been freely exposed to the open market;
(e) that
no account will be taken of any higher price that might be paid by an
adjoining owner of the relevant property; and
(f) that
any improvement constructed on the relevant land is disregarded;
“Metropolitan Region Scheme” means the
Town Planning Scheme published in the Government Gazette of
9 August 1963 in accordance with Section 32 of the Metropolitan
Region Town Planning Scheme Act 1959 as amended from time to time;
“Morley Land” means the land which
adjoins Walter Road, Bishop Street, Russell Street, Dewer Street, Bounty Road
and Collier Road, Morley, Western Australia and being in particular the land
specified in the Second Schedule;
“Morley Markets” means the property
known as Morley Markets, which adjoins Bishop Street, Morley, Western
Australia:
(a)
being Lot 103 on Diagram 37936 and being portion of Swan Location T:
(b)
which land has been subdivided in accordance with the provisions of the
Strata Titles Act 1985 (WA) and in particular, in accordance with Strata
Plan 21343; and
(c)
includes all lots registered on Strata Plan 21343;
“Morley Redevelopment” and “the
Redevelopment” have the meanings ascribed to those terms respectively in
the Agreement;
“Morley Shopping Centre” means the
shopping centre constructed on the Morley Land as at the commencement date of
this Lease, which shopping centre has been renovated and extended and includes
any new shopping centre which may be constructed in place of the shopping
centre constructed as at the date of commencement of this lease;
“Option Exercise Date” means the date
of service of an Option Notice by the Lessee on the Lessor;
“Option Notice” means a notice from
the Lessee to the Lessor exercising the option to purchase the Option
Premises;
“Option Premises” means, as the case
may be:
(a) the
whole of the leased premises; or
(b) Part
Property;
“Part Property” means any part of the
leased premises designated by the Lessee as land which the Lessee wishes to
acquire subject to that land being a lot within the meaning of that word in
section 2(1) of the Town Planning and Development Act 1928 ,
“Qualified Valuer” means a person who:
(a) is
licensed as a valuer under the Valuation of Land Act 1978 (WA);
(b) is a
member of the Institute of Valuers; and
(c) has
not less than 5 years’ experience in the valuation of suburban and
regional shopping centres;
“State” means the State of Western
Australia;
“Term” means 99 years from [ ];
“this lease” refers to this lease
(including its recitals, schedules and annexures), whether its original form
or as from time to time added to varied or amended;
“works of public nature” means rails
pipes conduits wires cables tunnels or other things or structures whether of
the same kind or of a different kind from those hereinbefore specified
constructed laid suspended or placed by or on behalf of any Local or Public
Authority.
(2) Interpretation
In this lease unless the contrary intention
appears —
(a)
words importing one gender include all other genders;
(b)
words in the singular number include the plural and vice versa ;
(c)
monetary references are references to Australian currency;
(d)
clause and subclause headings are inserted for ease of reference only and
shall be disregarded in the interpretation or construction of this lease;
(e)
reference to —
(i)
an Act by name is a reference to an Act of the Parliament
of Western Australia;
(ii)
an Act whether by name or otherwise includes the
amendments to the Act for the time being in force and also any Act passed in
substitution for it and all subsidiary legislation for the time being in force
under it; and
(iii)
a person includes a corporation.
2. COVENANTS BY LESSEE
The Lessee covenants and agrees with Us, Our Heirs
and Successors and with the Minister for Lands as follows —
(a) to
pay the rent reserved by this lease in the manner specified in this lease
without deduction or abatement;
(b) to
duly and punctually pay all present and future rates taxes charges assessments
impositions and outgoings which are now or during the Term are payable in
respect of or charged upon the leased premises or imposed upon the owner
occupier or tenant of the leased premises;
(c) to
keep and maintain the leased premises and all buildings structures erections
fixtures plant equipment and all improvements whatsoever now or at any time
during the Term on the leased premises in good repair and proper working order
(fair wear and tear excepted) and to yield up the same in such state of repair
and condition to the Minister for Lands at the expiration or sooner
determination of this lease and the Lessee agrees that on the expiration of
the Term or the sooner determination of the Term all buildings structures or
improvements whatsoever then erected on or affixed to the leased premises
shall become and remain the absolute property of the Minister for Lands
without compensation to the Lessee and the Lessee shall not have any
tenant’s rights to those buildings structures or improvements;
(d) to
duly and punctually perform observe comply with carry out and conform to the
provisions of all statutes for the time being in force and of all rules
regulations and by-laws made thereunder and for the time being in force
relating to the leased premises;
(e) not
to do or leave undone or cause or permit or suffer to be done or left undone
in or upon the leased premises or any part of the leased premises any act or
thing which may be or become a nuisance damage annoyance or inconvenience to
the Minister for Lands or to the occupiers of any of the adjoining or
neighbouring land;
(f) to
perform discharge and execute all requisitions and works and do and perform
all such acts and things upon to in respect of or affecting the leased
premises or any part of the leased premises or the operations carried out on
the leased premises as are or may be required or directed to be executed or
done by the City and by any other Local or Public Authority or by order or in
pursuance of any statute (State or Federal) now or hereafter in force or by
order or in pursuance of any by-law or regulation under any such statute;
(g) not
to do or leave undone or suffer to be done or left unpaid any act matter or
thing whereby a nuisance or anything in the nature of or which may be lawfully
deemed to be a nuisance by the City or any Local or Public Authority within
the meaning of any statute (State or Federal) now or hereafter in force or any
regulations or by-laws made thereunder may exist arise or continue upon or in
connection with the leased premises or any business carried on upon the leased
premises or the use or occupancy of the leased premises AND to forthwith abate
any such nuisance or alleged nuisance and carry out and comply with all the
provisions of every such statute or by-law and of every requisition and order
of any local or other public authority in reference to such nuisance or
alleged nuisance;
(h) to
pay to the Minister for Lands or as directed by it on demand all sums of money
which that Minister may at any time and from time to time after notice to the
Lessee pay or expend or be called upon to repay in or about or in connection
with performing discharging or executing any requisitions or works or abating
any nuisance or alleged nuisance referred to in the immediately proceeding
paragraphs (f) and (g) and which contrary to the agreements therein
contained the Lessee neglects or fails to perform discharge or execute;
(i)
to permit the Minister for Lands by agents servants and
workmen with or without appliances and equipment at all times to enter into
and upon the leased premises to inspect the leased premises for the purpose of
ensuring that the Lessee is observing performing and complying with the
covenants conditions and obligations of this lease and the Lessee shall
forthwith execute all the works (including maintenance and the removal of any
obstructions) required to be done by written notice by the Minister PROVIDED
THAT if the Lessee does not within one month after service of such notice
commence and diligently proceed with the execution of those works mentioned in
such notice (including where necessary and with the prior consent of the
Minister the undertaking by and at the expense in all things of the Lessee of
any preliminary research investigations and studies relating to such works) it
shall be lawful for the Minister by its contractors servants workmen and
agents to enter upon the leased premises and execute such works and the cost
thereof shall be a debt due from the Lessee and be forthwith recoverable by
action;
(j) to
comply forthwith with any requirement in connection with the protection of the
environment arising out of or incidental to the operations of the Lessee
hereunder that may be made by or under any Act from time to time in force;
(k) to
indemnify and keep indemnified all Ministers of the Crown and the Crown and
all instrumentalities of the Crown and all officers employees agents and
contractors of such Ministers of the Crown and its instrumentalities and the
employees of such agents and contractors from and against all actions claims
costs proceedings suits and demands whatsoever (whether arising founded on or
based in contract tort or statute or otherwise howsoever or any combination of
them) which may at any time be brought maintained or made against all or
anyone or more of them
(i)
in respect of any loss (including loss of use) injury or
damage of or to any nature or kind of property; and
(ii)
in respect of any death or injury sustained by any person
including without limiting the generality of the foregoing an officer employee
agent or contractor of any Minister of the Crown or an employee of such agent
or contractor,
directly or indirectly
during the Term or any extension of the Term caused by arising out of or in
connection with —
(iii)
the use or occupation of the leased premises by the
Lessee; or
(iv)
any work carried out by or on behalf of the Lessee
pursuant to this lease; or
(v)
the Lessee’s activities and operations business or
otherwise whatsoever under this lease; or
(vi)
the pollution by oil or any other liquid garbage material
refuse substance waste matter or thing of any class kind or description
whatsoever of the leased premises or the land adjacent to the leased premises
and of the air generally above the leased premises; or
(vii)
any default by the Lessee in the due and punctual
performance, observance and compliance with any of its covenants agreements
conditions or obligations contained in this lease,
PROVIDED ALWAYS that
this indemnity shall not apply if and to the extent that any such matter event
or thing has been caused or contributed to by any Minister of the Crown, the
Crown or any instrumentality of the Crown or any officer servant workman agent
or contractor of such Minister of the Crown, the Crown or its
instrumentalities or the employees of any such agents or contractors;
(l) to
yield up the leased premises at the expiration or sooner termination of this
lease in such state of repair and condition as is consistent with the proper
performance by the Lessee of the covenants contained in this lease;
(m) not
without prior written consent of the Minister for Lands to build on affix to
or instal on or permit or suffer to be built on affixed to or installed on the
leased premises any building structure erection fixture plant equipment or
improvement otherwise than as contemplated by the Agreement;
(n) to
pay all reasonable fees and charges payable to any architect surveyor engineer
expert or consultant employed or retained by or on behalf of the Minister for
Lands in respect of services performed or work done relating to the approval
of plans or drawings or otherwise in connection with the carrying out of the
obligations of the Lessee under this lease;
(o) to
insure and keep insured the erections buildings and other improvements on the
leased premises at any time against loss or damage by fire earthquake storm
and tempest and such other risks as the Minister for Lands may from time to
time reasonably require including but not limited to damage to or destruction
of the plate glass in the windows screens mirrors doors advertisements and
other parts of such erections and buildings to their full reinstatement and
replacement (new for old) value with a reputable and substantial insurance
office and to pay the premiums necessary for the above purposes on or before
the days on which the same shall respectively become due and whenever so
requested produce to the Minister for Lands or the Minister’s agents or
employees the policy or several policies of such insurance and the receipts
for the current year’s premiums and cause all moneys received by virtue
of such insurance to be forthwith laid out in repair rebuilding or reinstating
the leased premises so damaged or destroyed and to make up any deficiency out
of the Lessee’s own money PROVIDED ALWAYS that if the Lessee fails to
effect and maintain any such insurance the Minister for Lands may from time to
time at its discretion effect and keep on foot such insurance and the Lessee
shall on demand repay to the Minister for Lands all sums of money expended by
it for that purpose;
(p) not
to do or permit or suffer to be done in about or upon the leased premises any
act or thing whereby any policy of insurance against loss or damage to the
leased premises or any part of the leased premises may become void or
voidable;
(q) to
effect and keep effected in respect of the leased premises adequate public
risk insurance in an amount of not less than $5,000,000 in respect of any one
claim or such greater amount as the Minister for Lands at any time and from
time to time after notice to the Lessee may reasonably require with a
reputable and substantial insurance office and whenever requested to notify
the Minister for Lands of the details of the public risk insurance and to
ensure that such insurance conforms with the reasonable requirements from time
to time of the Minister for Lands of which the Lessee is given notice
and —
(i)
if required by the Minister for Lands to produce the
policy of insurance to the Minister for Lands;
(ii)
to deliver to the Minister for Lands at any time upon the
request of the Minister for Lands a valid certificate of currency in respect
of such insurance policy issued by the insurance company with which the policy
has been effected; and
(iii)
not to alter the terms or conditions of that policy
without the prior written approval of the Minister for Lands and to forthwith
deliver to the Minister for Lands particulars of any change or variation of
the terms and conditions or any other matter in respect of the insurance
policy effected by the Lessee pursuant to this provision;
(r) not
to assign, sub-let, mortgage, charge or otherwise encumber or part with the
possession of or dispose of the leased premises or any part of the leased
premises or the benefit at law or in equity of this lease without the prior
written consent of the Minister for Lands which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld —
(i)
in respect of a sublease of the leased premises or any
part of the leased premises to a respectable responsible and solvent person;
(ii)
if the Lessee wishes to assign the whole of the leased
premises and the benefit of this lease, if —
(A) the proposed assignee is a respectable,
responsible and solvent person who has purchased the freehold of the Morley
Shopping Centre;
(B) the Lessee procures the execution by
the proposed assignee of a deed of assignment of this lease to which the
Minister for Lands is a party in a form approved by the Minister for
Lands’ solicitors at the cost of the Lessee or the assignee in all
respects;
(C) all rent then due and payable has been
paid and there is no existing unremedied breach of any covenant to be
performed by the Lessee under this lease;
(D) the assignment contains a covenant by
the proposed assignee with the Minister for Lands that the proposed assignee
shall at all times during the continuance of the Term duly perform and observe
all the covenants in this lease on the part of the Lessee to be performed and
observed; and
(E) the Lessee first pays to the Minister
for Lands all proper and reasonable costs, charges and expenses incurred by
the Minister for Lands of and incidental to any enquiries which may be made by
or on behalf of the Minister for Lands as to the respectability,
responsibility and solvency of any proposed assignee;
(iii)
in respect of a mortgage or charge over both the leased
premises and the freehold of the Morley Shopping Centre if the Lessee first
procures the other party to the transaction by deed to covenant with the
Minister for Lands not to exercise any power conferred by or in respect of the
mortgage or charge to sell the leased premises without first procuring the
proposed purchaser by deed to agree to observe perform and be bound by all the
covenants terms and conditions on the part of the Lessee as are contained in
this lease.
The Lessee agrees that
the covenants and agreements on the part of any proposed assignee sublessee
mortgagee or chargee shall be deemed to be supplementary to the covenants of
the Lessee under this lease and shall not in any way relieve or be deemed to
relieve the Lessee from any of those covenants, and it is hereby expressly
agreed and declared that the provisions of sections 80 and 82 of the
Property Law Act 1969 are excluded from and do not apply to this lease;
(s) at
all times during the Term except during any period during which any works are
being undertaken on the leased premises to actively and continuously use the
leased premises for the purpose of the Morley Redevelopment including (without
limitation) parking and construction of a new building or other development
ancillary to the Morley Shopping Centre and not to use the leased premises for
any other purpose whatsoever;
(t) the
use to which the leased premises are put by the Lessee shall in all respects
comply with all applicable provisions of the City’s Town Planning Scheme
and the Metropolitan Region Scheme;
(u) to
ensure that car parking on the leased premises is kept continuously available
to the public free of cost for short term parking of vehicles, other than
during periods when with the prior written approval of the Minister for Lands
that car parking area or part of it may be closed for repairs or other
reasonable purposes.
(v)
(1) Subject to
subclauses (v)(2) and (v)(3), the Lessee will maintain on the leased
premises 80 short term car parking bays which will be available for use in
common by the owner, tenants, employees, visitors and invitees of:
(A) the Morley Shopping Centre; and
(B) the Morley Markets;
(2) the obligation of
the Lessee under subclause (v)(1) will cease on Morley Markets ceasing to
be used for:
(A) a market retail business; or
(B) another retail purpose;
(3) The provisions of
subclause (v)(2) will not apply during a period when:
(A) any buildings or other improvements on
Morley Markets are in the course of demolition for the purposes of the
construction of new buildings or other improvements;
(B) new buildings or other improvements are
being constructed on Morley Markets;
and where, following
the construction of new buildings or other improvements, Morley Markets are
proposed to be used for, and are used for, the purposes specified in
subclause (v)(2).
3. IT IS HEREBY AGREED AND DECLARED by and between
Us, Our Heirs and Successors and the Minister for Lands, and the
Lessee —
(a) The
Lessee will grant to the Metropolitan (Perth) Passenger Transport Trust
(“Transperth”) a sub-lease in respect of part of the leased
premises in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) The sub-lease will
be granted in respect of that part of the leased premises as is agreed between
the Lessee and Transperth, or failing agreement, then in respect of that part
of the leased premises as is shown on the plan marked as Annexure B;
(2) The sub-lease will
be granted for the purposes of Transperth constructing, maintaining and
operating a transfer bus station as approved by the Lessee, such approval not
to be unreasonably withheld, it being understood the transfer bus station will
be single level and will not include any retail outlets or offices;
(3) Subject to the
term being for a term which expires on a date prior to the date of expiration
of this lease, the term of the sub-lease will be for the term required by
Transperth;
(4) Subject to
Transperth not being released from any obligations which arise prior to the
date of surrender, Transperth will be entitled to surrender the sub-lease on
giving not less than 20 Business Days’ notice in writing to the Lessee;
(5) If Transperth
ceases to use that part of the leased premises in respect of which a sub-lease
is granted in accordance with this subclause, for the purpose of a transfer
bus station or for a similar public transport purpose, the Lessee will be
entitled to require Transperth to surrender the sub-lease unless Transperth
establishes that Transperth will within a reasonable time re-commence use of
the area the subject of the sub-lease for a public transport use;
(6) No rent will be
payable by Transperth under the sub-lease;
(7) Transperth will be
responsible at its own expense for constructing any bus station and associated
facilities on the area sub-leased to Transperth, and will be responsible for
all maintenance and repair in respect of those facilities and of the land area
sub-leased generally;
(8) The Lessee will
cause to be prepared and will execute a formal written sub-lease with
Transperth incorporating the matters specified in this subclause and any other
provisions as are appropriate to the sub-lease and as are agreed between the
Lessee and Transperth, or failing agreement, determined by arbitration with
each party having the right to be represented by a legal practitioner; and
(9) The sub-lease to
Transperth will be subject to the approval of the Minister, which approval
will not be unreasonably withheld;
(b) all
rights other than those expressly or impliedly granted under this lease are
reserved to Us, Our Heirs and Successors and the Minister for Lands (as the
case requires);
(c)
if —
(i)
the rent hereby reserved is unpaid for 28 days after
becoming payable (whether formally demanded or not) and such default continues
for a period of a further 28 days after notice by the Minister for Lands
to the Lessee specifying the non-payment complained of; or
(ii)
a petition is lodged or a resolution is passed for the
winding up or dissolution of the Lessee, or a receiver or a receiver and
manager of the affairs and undertaking of the Lessee or any part of the
affairs and undertaking of the Lessee is appointed and that petition,
resolution or appointment of a receiver or manager is not withdrawn or
rescinded within 30 Business Days; or
(iii)
any process of execution is levied on any property of the
Lessee and is not satisfied or withdrawn within 30 Business Days; or
(iv)
the Lessee defaults in the due and punctual performance
or observance of any covenant on its part contained or implied in this lease
and fails to remedy that default within a reasonable time after the service on
the Lessee of a notice specifying such default, which reasonable time shall be
specified in the notice and shall not be less than ten (10) Business Days
after service of the notice;
THEN and in any of
those cases it shall be lawful for Us, Our Heirs and Successors and the
Minister for Lands (as the case requires) to re-enter into and upon the leased
premises or any part of the leased premises in the name of the whole to have
again repossess and enjoy the leased premises as if this lease had never been
executed without making any compensation to the Lessee but without prejudice
to any right of action of both or either of Us, Our Heirs and Successors and
the Minister for Lands in respect of any breach of the Lessee’s
covenants contained in this lease;
(d) any
notice consent request approval or other writing authorised or required by
this lease to be given or sent shall be deemed to have been duly given or sent
by the Minister for Lands if signed by that Minister or by a senior officer of
the Western Australian Public Service acting by the direction or with
authority of that Minister and forwarded by prepaid certified mail to the
Lessee at its registered office for the time being and by the Lessee if signed
on its behalf by a person authorised to do so and forwarded by prepaid
certified mail to the Minister for Lands at its office in Perth AND any such
notice consent request approval 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;
(e)
Notwithstanding clause 2(c) hereof the Lessee and every person who is
occupying the leased premises under a sub-lease, licence or other agreement
with the Lessee will, other than in respect of lifts escalators
airconditioning and fire prevention plant and equipment, be entitled to remove
from the leased premises or from any improvements on the leased premises all
fixtures, fittings, plant and equipment installed within the said improvements
within one month after the date of expiration or sooner determination of the
Term. Any fixtures, fittings, plant and equipment not removed as aforesaid
will become the sole and absolute property of the Lessor and no compensation
will be payable to the Lessee in consequence thereof. Where fixtures,
fittings, plant and equipment are removed from the leased premises or any
improvements thereon, any damage caused to the improvements or the leased
premises by the removal will be made good by the Lessee at the expense of the
Lessee.
(f) any
dispute or difference in respect of any matter or thing done or which ought to
have been done by any party hereunder or concerning the interpretation hereof
may be determined by arbitration under the Commercial Arbitration
Act 1985 . Either party may be represented by a legal practitioner or
other representative at any such arbitration.
(g) each
party to this lease will pay its own legal costs of the preparation and
execution of this lease.
(h)
Option to Purchase
(1) Subject to the
provisions of subclause (i) and this subclause, the Lessor grants to the
Lessee an option to purchase:
(A) Part Property; and
(B) the leased premises
(2) If the Lessee
exercises the option to purchase and acquires Part Property, the Lessee will
thereafter be entitled to exercise the option to purchase:
(A) any other Part Property; and
(B) the leased premises;
(3) Where the Lessee
exercises the option to purchase, and acquires Part Property, all references
thereafter in this subclause and in subclauses (k) and (m) and in the
definition of “Option Premises” to the leased premises, are a
reference to that part of the leased premises which remains after the
acquisition of the Part Property by the Lessee;
(i)
Option to Purchase Option Premises
(1) If the Lessee
wishes to exercise the option to purchase the leased premises or Part
Property, the following provisions of this subclause will apply;
(2) The Lessee must
serve on the Lessor an Option Notice;
(3) The Option Notice
must specify whether the option is exercised in respect of the leased premises
or Part Property and if in respect of Part Property, must clearly specify the
Part Property;
(4) the Option Notice
referred to in subclause (i)(2) must be given at any time but not later
than 6 months prior to the date of expiration of the Term;
(5) The purchase price
of the Option Premises will be the purchase price determined subject to and in
accordance with the provisions of subclause (j);
(6) Within 20 Business
Days of the determination of the purchase price, the Lessee will pay to the
Lessor the sum which represents the purchase price of the Option Premises;
(7) The Lessor will,
immediately following payment of the purchase price under
subclause (i)(6), implement procedures for the issue to the Lessee of a
Crown Grant in respect of the Option Premises;
(8) The Crown Grant in
respect of the Option Premises will be issued;
(A) in the name of the Lessee, and if more
than one person is the Lessee, then to each person who is the Lessee in the
same undivided shares in which those persons then hold this Lease; and
(B) subject to the sub-lease granted to
Transperth under clause 3(a) and the exceptions, reservations and
conditions usual in Crown Grants (except that the land will be granted to a
depth of 30 metres), but otherwise free of encumbrances;
(9) If a Crown Grant
is issued under this subclause the Lessee will continue to comply with the
provisions of clause 2(v) and will if requested by the City enter into a
formal agreement to comply with those obligations.
(j)
Purchase Price
(1) Subject to the
provisions of this subclause, the purchase price will be the lesser of the
following:
(A) the Market Value of the Option Premises
as at the Option Exercise Date; and
(B) the Market Value of the Option Premises
as at 1 September 1992 increased as from 1 September 1992
by the amount which is equal to 3.5 percentage points greater than the
percentage increase in the CPI calculated from 1 September 1992 to
the end of the CPI Quarter immediately preceding the Option Exercise Date.
(2) Subject to the
provisions of subclauses (k) and (l), the Market Value of the Option
Premises will be determined;
(A) as at
1 September 1992 — in accordance with
subclause (k); and
(B) as at the Option Exercise
Date — in accordance with the provisions of
subclause (l).
(k)
Determination of Market Value as at 1 September 1992
(1) At any time after
the date of execution of this Lease either the Lessor or the Lessee may
require that the Market Value of the leased premises be established as at
1 September 1992;
(2) Where the Lessor
or the Lessee requires the Market Value of the leased premises to be
determined as at 1 September 1992, the Lessor or the Lessee (as the
case may be) must serve a notice on the other requiring the determination of
the Market Value;
(3) Following the
service of a notice in accordance with subclause (k)(2), the Lessor and
the Lessee will meet with each other with the intention of agreement being
made in writing as to the Market Value of the leased premises as at
1 September 1992;
(4) If the Lessor and
the Lessee are unable to agree the Market Value of the leased premises within
30 Business Days of the service of a notice in accordance with
subclause (m)(2), the Market Value of the leased premises as at
1 September 1992 will be determined in accordance with
subclause (m);
(5) If the Lessee
exercises the option in this clause in respect of Part Property and at the
date of service of the Option Notice the Market Value of the leased premises
as at 1 September 1992 has not been determined, then the Market
Value of the Part Property as at 1 September 1992 will be determined
subject to and in accordance with the procedure specified in
subclauses (k)(1) to (k)(4) inclusive and every reference in those
subclauses to leased premises is to be treated as a reference to Part
Property;
(6) If the Lessee
exercises the option under this clause in respect of Part Property, and at the
date of service of the Option Notice the Market Value of the leased premises
as at 1 September 1992 has been determined in accordance with the
provisions and procedure specified in subclauses (k)(1) to (k)(4)
inclusive then the Market Value of the Option Premises as at
1 September 1992 will be that proportion of the Market Value of the
leased premises which the area of the Part Property bears to the area of the
leased premises.
(l)
Determination of Market Value as at Option Exercise Date
(1) Following the
service of an Option Notice in accordance with subclause (i), the Lessor
and the Lessee will, within 30 Business Days of service of the Option
Exercise Notice meet with each other with the intention of agreement being
made in writing as to the Market Value of the Option Premises as at the Option
Exercise Date;
(2) If agreement in
writing is made between the Lessor and the Lessee as to the Market Value of
the Option Premises in accordance with the provisions of
subclause (l)(1), then the Market Value of the Option Premises as at the
Option Exercise Date will be the Market Value as agreed in writing between the
Lessor and the Lessee in accordance with subclause (l)(1);
(3) If the Lessor and
the Lessee are unable within 30 Business Days of the service of the Option
Notice to make an agreement in writing with regard to the Market Value of the
Option Premises as at the Option Exercise Date, then the Market Value of the
Option Premises as at the Option Exercise Date will be determined in
accordance with subclause (m).
(m)
Determination of Market Value in case of Dispute
(1) Where the Lessor
and the Lessee are unable to agree the Market Value of the leased premises or
of the Option Premises in accordance with the provisions of
subclauses (k) or (l) then the provisions of this subclause will apply;
(2) The Market Value
of the leased premises or the Option Premises as the case may be will be
determined by arbitration under the Commercial Arbitration Act 1985 ;
(3) The arbitrator who
will conduct the arbitration will be a Qualified Valuer nominated by the
President of the Institute of Valuers on the application of either the Lessor
or the Lessee;
(4) The decision of
the arbitrator will be final and binding on the Lessor and the Lessee; and
(5) For the purposes
of the Commercial Arbitration Act 1985 , both the Lessor and the Lessee
may be represented in the arbitration proceedings by a qualified legal
practitioner.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[Land description] as shown on the plan annexed and marked
Annexure “A”.
THE SECOND SCHEDULE
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 200 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 946;
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 204 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 950;
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 205 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 951;
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 206 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 952;
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 207 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 953;
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 208 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 954;
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 209 on Plan 14988 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 955;
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 1 the subject of Diagram 29399 being
the whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1278 Folio 955.
Portion of Swan Location T and being part of Lot 1152 on Plan 3401 being the
whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1863 Folio 210;
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 1123 on Plan 3401 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1848 Folio 251;
Portion of Swan Location T and being part of Lot 1122 on Plan 3401 being the
whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1642 Folio 958;
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 101 the subject of Diagram 39772
being the whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 523 Folio 173A;
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 50 the subject of Diagram 45128 being
the whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1354 Folio 259;
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 6 on Diagram 35665 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 472 Folio 103A;
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 401 the subject of Diagram 45121
being the whole of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1354 Folio 570;
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 498 on Diagram 63581 being the whole
of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1628 Folio 570;
Portion of Swan Location T and being Lot 2 on Diagram 39472 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1494 Folio 090;
Portion of Swan Location Q1 and being Lot 3 on Diagram 24053 being the whole
of the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1227 Folio 014.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF this lease has been executed as a Deed the day
of 19 .
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THE COMMON SEAL of the ) | | |
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Signed for and on behalf of THE COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED
by its Attorneys | |
THE COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED by its Attorneys
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THE COMMON SEAL of MORLEY SHOPPING CENTRE PTY LIMITED was hereunto affixed in
accordance with its Articles of Association in the presence of:
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REGISTERED the day of 199 in conformity with
Section 81C of the Transfer of Land Act 1893 and numbered .
Registrar of Titles
ANNEXURE A
Plan of Lease Area
ANNEXURE B
Plan of Transperth Sub-lease area

SCHEDULE 6
LAND RIGHTS — WATER AUTHORITY LAND
Reference: clause 9
Part A — Easement over Water Authority Land
1. GRANT OF EASEMENT
Subject to clauses 2 to 4 inclusive of this
Part, the Water Authority will grant to the Joint Venturers an easement over
the Water Authority Land in accordance with clause 5 of this Part.
2. EASEMENT AREA AND PLAN
(1) Subject to
clause 3 of this Part, the easement will be granted over that part of the
Water Authority Land which is capable of being used for motor vehicle traffic.
(2) At a reasonable
time prior to the time when the easement is required to be granted under
clause 9(a) of the Agreement, the Joint Venturers will prepare and
deliver to the Water Authority a plan which shows the area of the Water
Authority Land over which the easement is to be granted in accordance with
subclause (1) of this Part. The area over which the easement is to be
granted will be hatched on the plan.
(3) The Water
Authority will, within 20 Business Days of delivery of the plan in accordance
with subclause (2) of this clause, give written notice to the Joint
Venturers whether the plan complies or does not comply with subclause (1)
of this clause.
(4) If the Water
Authority, in accordance with subclause (3) of this clause, gives notice
to the Joint Venturers that the plan complies with subclause (1) of this
clause, then that plan will be incorporated in the formal easement deed
specified in clause 5 of this Part.
(5) (a)
If the Water Authority, under subclause (3)
of this clause, gives notice to the Joint Venturers that the plan does not
comply with the provisions of subclause (1) of this clause, the Water
Authority and the Joint Venturers will within 10 Business Days of the
service of the notice by the Water Authority under subclause (3), meet
with each other with the intention of reaching agreement in writing concerning
the plan, or as to modifications to the plan.
(b) If
the Joint Venturers and the Water Authority reach agreement in writing as
referred to in subclause (5)(a) of this clause, then the plan agreed in
writing will be the plan incorporated in the Deed of Easement specified in
clause 5 of this Part.
(c) If
there is no agreement in writing between the Joint Venturers and the Water
Authority as to the plan in accordance with subclause (5)(b) of this
clause, then the plan to be incorporated in the Deed of Easement referred to
in clause 5 of this Part will be the plan determined by arbitration under
subclause (6) of this clause.
(6) If it is necessary
to determine a dispute between the Joint Venturers and the Water Authority
relating to the plan in accordance with subclause (5)(c) of this clause,
the following provisions will apply.
(a) The
dispute will be determined by arbitration under the Commercial Arbitration
Act 1985 .
(b) The
arbitrator, or arbitrators who will conduct the arbitration, will be agreed
between the Water Authority and the Joint Venturers within 10 Business Days of
the requirement for arbitration arising, or failing agreement, the arbitrator
will be a person nominated by the President of the Law Society of Western
Australia (Inc.) on the application of either the Joint Venturers or the Water
Authority.
(c) The
decision of the arbitrator will be final and binding on the Joint Venturers
and the Water Authority.
(d) For
the purposes of the Commercial Arbitration Act 1985 , both the Joint
Venturers and the Water Authority may be represented in the arbitration
proceedings by a qualified legal practitioner.
(e) Both
the Joint Venturers and the Water Authority will bear all legal costs and
expenses incurred by them in relation to the arbitration.
(f) Both
the Water Authority and the Joint Venturers will each pay one-half of the
costs of the arbitrator and other costs relating to the arbitration.
3. PARKING DECK
(1) The parking deck
constructed on the Water Authority Land will not be subject to the easement
referred to in clause 1 of this Part.
(2) The right of the
Joint Venturers to use the parking deck will be subject to a separate
agreement between the Joint Venturers and the Water Authority.
4. PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE EASEMENT
(1) The Deed of
Easement specified in clause 5 of this Part will:
(a) be
prepared on the then appropriate form prescribed by the Office of Titles
5 , Perth; and
(b) will
incorporate any modifications as are necessary to enable the Deed to be
registered at the Office of Titles 5 , Perth.
(2) The Joint
Venturers and the Water Authority will undertake all matters as are necessary
to enable registration of the Deed of Easement at the Office of Titles 5
and without affecting the generality of the preceding provisions, both the
Water Authority and the Joint Venturers will:
(a)
lodge all relevant Certificates of Title at the Office of Titles 5 to
enable registration of the Deed of Easement;
(b)
execute and lodge all applications as are required by the Office of Titles
5 ; and
(c)
co-operate with each other relating to the stamping and registration of the
Deed of Easement at the Office of Titles 5 .
(3) The Joint
Venturers will pay:
(a) all
stamp duty assessed in respect of the Deed of Easement; and
(b)
Office of Titles 5 registration fees associated with the registration of
the Deed of Easement.
(4) The date of
commencement of the term of the easement will be Project Completion or any
earlier date as the Minister determines in accordance with clause 9(a) of
the Agreement.
5. FORM OF DEED OF EASEMENT
This Deed of Easement is made between:
WATER AUTHORITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, a body
corporate pursuant to the Water Authority Act 1984 of 629 Newcastle
Street, Leederville, Western Australia (the “Water Authority”);
and
MORLEY SHOPPING CENTRE PTY LTD (A.C.N.
002 154 458) of 800 Toorak Road, Tooronga, Melbourne, Victoria and
THE COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED (A.C.N.
004 405 556) of 330 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria (the
“Joint Venturers”).
RECITALS
A. The Water Authority is the registered
proprietor of the Water Authority Land.
B. The Joint Venturers are the registered
proprietor of the Morley Shopping Centre Land.
C. The Water Authority as the registered
proprietor of the Water Authority Land has agreed to grant to the Joint
Venturers as the registered proprietor of the Morley Shopping Centre Land, an
easement and other rights in accordance with this Deed.
This Deed witnesses, and the Water Authority and the Joint Venturers covenant
and agree with each other as follows.
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
(1) In this Deed,
including the Recitals, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
words and expressions have the following meanings.
“Business Day” means every day on
which trading banks are open for business in Western Australia.
“Date of Commencement” means the [ ].
“Easement Area” means the area which
is hatched on the plan.
“Easement Term” means the term of
20 years commencing on the Date of Commencement.
“Morley Shopping Centre” means the
shopping centre building and other improvements erected on the Morley Shopping
Centre Land.
“Morley Shopping Centre Land” means:
Portion of Swan
Location Q1 and being Lot 200 on Plan 14988 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 946;
Portion of Swan
Location Q1 and being Lot 204 on Plan 14988 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 950;
Portion of Swan
Location Q1 and being Lot 205 on Plan 14988 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 951;
Portion of Swan
Location Q1 and being Lot 206 on Plan 14988 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 952;
Portion of Swan
Location Q1 and being Lot 207 on Plan 14988 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 953;
Portion of Swan
Location Q1 and being Lot 208 on Plan 14988 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 954;
Portion of Swan
Location Q1 and being Lot 209 on Plan 14988 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1690 Folio 955;
Portion of Swan
Location Q1 and being Lot 1 the subject of Diagram 29399 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1278 Folio 955;
Portion of Swan
Location T and being part of Lot 1152 on Plan 3401 being the whole of the land
in Certificate of Title Volume 1863 Folio 210;
Portion of Swan
Location T and being Lot 1123 on Plan 3401 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1848 Folio 251;
Portion of Swan
Location T and being part of Lot 1122 on Plan 3401 being the whole of the
land in Certificate of Title Volume 1642 Folio 958;
Portion of Swan
Location T and being Lot 101 the subject of Diagram 39772 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 523 Folio 173A;
Portion of Swan
Location T and being Lot 50 the subject of Diagram 45128 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1354 Folio 259;
Portion of Swan
Location T and being Lot 6 on Diagram 35665 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 472 Folio 103A;
Portion of Swan
Location T and being Lot 401 the subject of Diagram 45121 being the whole of
the land in Certificate of Title Volume 1354 Folio 570;
Portion of Swan
Location T and being Lot 498 on Diagram 63581 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1628 Folio 570;
Portion of Swan
Location T and being Lot 2 on Diagram 39472 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1494 Folio 090;
Portion of Swan
Location Q1 and being Lot 3 on Diagram 24053 being the whole of the land in
Certificate of Title Volume 1227 Folio 014.
“Paved Surface” means a surface
constructed of bitumen, concrete, brick or other appropriate material
determined by the Joint Venturers.
“Plan” means the plan annexed and
marked Annexure “A”.
“PS Works” means all works necessary
for the construction of a Paved Surface.
“State” means the State of Western
Australia.
“Titles Office” means the Office of
Titles 5, Perth.
“Water Authority Land” means:
(a)
portion of Swan Location T and being part of the land on Diagram 27251 and
being the whole of the land comprised in Certificate of Title Volume 280 Folio
77A; and
(b)
portion of Swan Location T and being part of Lot 1152 on Plan 3401 and being
the whole of the land comprised in Certificate of Title Volume 1255 Folio 789.
“WAWA Equipment” means any plant or
equipment including pipes of the Water Authority for the time being on or
beneath the surface of the Water Authority Land.
(2) This Deed binds:
(a) the
Water Authority; and
(b) the
person who is from time to time the registered proprietor of the Water
Authority Land and if:
(c)
after the Date of Commencement;
(d) the
Water Authority Land is transferred to another person,
then the references in
this Deed to the Water Authority mean:
(e)
subject to any liability under clause 7(2);
(f) a
reference to the person who from time to time is the registered proprietor of
the Water Authority Land.
(3) The benefit of the
easement and other rights granted under this Deed is granted to
(a) the
Joint Venturers; and
(b) the
person who is from time to time the registered proprietor of the Morley
Shopping Centre Land and if
(c)
after the Date of Commencement;
(d) the
Morley Shopping Centre Land is transferred to another person,
the references in this
Deed to the Joint Venturers mean:
(e)
subject to any liability referred to in clause 7(2);
(f) a
reference to the person who from time to time is the registered proprietor of
the Morley Shopping Centre Land.
(4) In this Deed:
(a) A
reference to an Act by name is a reference to an Act of the Parliament of the
State;
(b) an
Act whether by name or otherwise includes the amendments to the Act for the
time being in force and also any Act passed in substitution for it and the
subsidiary legislation for the time being in force under it;
(c) a
reference to a clause is to a clause of this Deed;
(d) a
reference to a subclause is to a subclause of the clause in which the
reference occurs;
(e) the
singular shall include the plural and vice versa ;
(f)
clause headings will not be taken into account in interpreting this Deed; and
(g) A
reference to an institute, association, body and authority whether statutory
or otherwise shall, if any institute, body association or authority ceases to
exist or is reconstituted, renamed or replaced, or its powers or functions are
transferred to any other institute, association, body or authority be treated
as referring respectively to the institute, association, body or authority
established or constituted in its place or as nearly as may be succeeds to the
powers or functions of the institute, association, body or authority referred
to.
2. GRANT OF EASEMENT
(1) Subject to
subclause (2) the Water Authority:
(a) as
the registered proprietor of the Water Authority Land; and
(b) with
the intention to bind the Water Authority Land and each person who is from
time to time the registered proprietor of the Water Authority Land,
grants to the Joint
Venturers:
(a) as
the registered proprietor of and as appurtenant to the Morley Shopping Centre
Land;
(b) with
the intention that the benefit of the easement created by this Deed accrues to
and in favour of each person who is from time to time the registered
proprietor of the Morley Shopping Centre Land,
an easement for the
Joint Venturers and the tenants, visitors, agents, employees, contractors and
invitees of the Joint Venturers to cross over the Easement Area on foot or in
vehicles at all times during the Easement Term.
(2) Notwithstanding
subclause (1) the Water Authority may when and as often as is necessary
carry out any work, including excavation work, on the Easement Area for the
purpose of maintaining, repairing, installing or modifying WAWA Equipment.
3. RIGHTS TO CONSTRUCT PAVED SURFACE
(1) Subject to the
provisions of this clause, the Joint Venturers will be entitled, at the
expense of the Joint Venturers, to construct and maintain a Paved Surface on
the Easement Area.
(2) the Paved Surface
will not be constructed on any part of the Easement Area where the Water
Authority reasonably directs that the Paved Surface must not be constructed as
a result of:
(a) WAWA
Equipment; or
(b) for
other reasonable cause.
(3) Prior to preparing
a specification of the PS Works, the Joint Ventures will:
(a)
consult with the Water Authority to determine whether there are any areas on
which the Paved Surface should not be constructed in accordance with the
requirements of subclause (2);
(b) with
the intention of the Joint Venturers and the Water Authority resolving any
matters in contention between them arising from a proposal by the Joint
Venturers to construct a Paved Surface on the Easement Area.
(4) A reasonable time
prior to commencing the PS Works, and not less than 30 Business Days prior to
the proposed date of commencement of the PS Works, the Joint Venturers will
provide to the Water Authority in writing in reasonable detail:
(a)
specifications for the PS Works including details as to where on the Easement
Area the Paved Surface is to be constructed; and
(b) a
timetable specifying in reasonable detail the times and manner in which the
Joint Venturers intend to undertake the PS Works including in particular the
proposed date of commencement of the PS Works.
(5) The Water
Authority will no later than 10 Business Days prior to the proposed date of
commencement of the PS Works notify the Joint Venturers in writing:
(a)
whether the Water Authority, having regard to the provisions of
subclause (2), objects to any aspect of the PS Works; and if so
(b) the
Water Authority will notify the Joint Venturers of its objections in that
notice in reasonable detail.
(6) If the Water
Authority serves a notice on the Joint Venturers under subclause (5):
(a) the
Joint Venturers will not commence the PS Works until all matters in dispute
with the Water Authority concerning the PS Works have been resolved; and
(b) the
Joint Venturers and the Water Authority will meet with each other within 10
Business Days of the service of the notice by the Water Authority under
subclause (5) with the intention of agreement being reached in writing
between the Water Authority and the Joint Venturers in respect of any matters
in dispute concerning the PS Works.
(7) If the Water
Authority serves a notice on the Joint Venturers under subclause (5) and
any matters in dispute concerning the PS Works are not resolved in accordance
with the provisions of subclause (6)(b) within 10 Business Days of the
service of the notice under subclause (5), then the matters in dispute
will be determined by arbitration in accordance with clause 4.
(8) If for the purpose
of obtaining access to WAWA Equipment it is necessary for the Water Authority
to demolish a part of the Paved Surface, the following provisions will apply.
(a) The
Water Authority will undertake all works necessary to reinstate the Paved
Surface following the completion of the works by the Water Authority.
(b) The
Joint Venturers will pay to the Water Authority the reasonable cost of
reinstating the Paved Surface.
(c) If
there is any dispute between the Water Authority and the Joint Venturers
concerning the reasonable cost of the Water Authority in accordance with
subclause (b), that dispute will be resolved by arbitration in accordance
with clause 4.
4. RESOLUTION OF DISPUTE UNDER CLAUSE 3 BY
ARBITRATION
(1) Where any dispute
is required to be determined by arbitration in accordance with clause 3,
the following provisions will apply.
(2) The dispute will
be determined by arbitration conducted in accordance with the
Commercial Arbitration Act 1985 .
(3) The arbitrator
will be one or more arbitrators agreed between the Water Authority and the
Joint Venturers within 10 Business Days of the requirement for a dispute
to be determined by arbitration, and failing agreement, will be determined by
one arbitrator who is a civil engineer appointed by the President of the
Institution of Engineers Australia (WA Division) on the application of either
the Water Authority or the Joint Venturers.
(4) The decision of
the arbitrator will be final and binding on the Joint Venturers and the Water
Authority.
(5) The Water
Authority and the Joint Venturers will be entitled to be represented by a
qualified legal practitioner in any arbitration proceedings conducted in
accordance with this clause.
(6) The Joint
Venturers and the Water Authority will each bear their own legal costs and
expenses relating to the arbitration.
(7) Both the Water
Authority and the Joint Venturers will each share one-half of the costs of the
arbitrator and other costs relating to the arbitration.
5. INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE
(1) The Joint
Venturers agree to indemnify and hold indemnified the Water Authority against
any claim, action or proceedings in respect of damage to or destruction of
property or injury or death of persons arising from:
(a) the
exercise by the Joint Venturers of the rights of the Joint Venturers under
this Deed and in particular the rights under clauses 2 and 3; and
(b) any
negligent act or omission which occurs on the Water Authority Land except to
the extent caused or contributed to by the Water Authority.
(2) The Joint
Venturers will take out and maintain throughout the Easement Term insurance:
(a) with
a reputable and substantial insurer;
(b)
covering the liability of the Joint Venturers under subclause (1) and any
other liability determined by the Joint Venturers in an amount of not less
than $5,000,000 in respect of any one claim.
(3) The Joint
Venturers will, on request by the Water Authority, provide to the Water
Authority:
(a) a
copy of every policy of insurance taken out and maintained by the Joint
Venturers under subclause (2); and
(b)
proof of payment of insurance premiums by the Joint Venturers.
(4) If the Joint
Venturers fail to take out and maintain insurance in accordance with
subclause (2), the Water Authority may, after giving not less than 10
Business Days notice to the Joint Venturers in writing, take out and maintain
insurance for the purposes of subclause (2) and recover from the Joint
Venturers all costs and expenses incurred by the Water Authority in that
regard.
6. ANCILLIARY RIGHTS OF THE JOINT VENTURERS
(1) The rights granted
to the Joint Venturers as the registered proprietors of the Morley Shopping
Centre Land in accordance with clause 2 may also be exercised by the
Joint Venturers in respect of any other land:
(a) of
which the Joint Venturers are the registered proprietor; and
(b)
which is adjacent to or reasonably adjacent to the Morley Shopping Centre Land
and used by the Joint Venturers as part of the Morley Shopping Centre.
(2) The Joint
Venturers will:
(a) be
entitled at all times to effect repairs and maintenance to any Paved Surface
constructed on the Easement Area in accordance with clause 3; and
(b) from
time to time to demolish and remove a Paved Surface constructed on the
Easement Area by the Joint Venturers and to construct a new Paved Surface in
its place.
(3) If the Joint
Venturers exercise the rights under subclause (2)(b) to demolish, remove
and replace a Paved Surface, the provisions of clause 2 will apply in
respect of any proposed new Paved Surface as if the proposed new Paved Surface
were the first Paved Surface to be constructed on the Easement Area in
accordance with the provisions of clause 3.
(4) The Joint
Venturers will be entitled to exercise all rights which are ancilliary to the
Joint Venturers rights under this Deed including the right to enter on the
Water Authority Land for the purpose of exercising the rights granted under
clause 3 and under subclause (2).
7. RELEASE OF PERSONAL OBLIGATIONS
(1) Subject to
subclause (2), on the transfer by any party to this Deed of the land of
which that party is the registered proprietor, that party is, as from the date
of registration of the transfer, released from all personal obligations of
that party under this Deed.
(2) The release of a
party under subclause (1) does not affect any claim against that party
which arose prior to the date of the release specified in subclause (1).
8. NOTICES
(1) Any notices
required to be served on either party must be in writing and signed on behalf
of that party by a person authorised to do so.
(2) Any notice served
under this Deed must be served:
(a)
personally by hand delivery; or
(b) by
certified mail
addressed to the
relevant party at its address from time to time as registered on the
Certificate of Title to the land of that party and recorded at the Titles
Office.
(3) Without affecting
the provisions of subclause (2), any notice to the Water Authority must
be served on the Water Authority at its address from time to time as recorded
on the Certificate of Title to the Water Authority Land at the Titles office
(4) Without affecting
the provisions of subclause (2), any notice to the Joint Venturers must
be served on the Joint Venturers at the address of the Joint Venturers as
recorded from time to time on the Certificate of Title for the Morley Shopping
Centre Land at the Titles Office.
(5) Any notice served
by certified mail in accordance with subclause (2) will be regarded as
having been served on the fourth Business Day following the date of posting
unless:
(a) at
the time of posting; or
(b)
within the next four Business Days, the services of Australia Post are
suspended or interrupted by industrial action or other causes in which case a
notice will be regarded as having been served four Business Days after normal
services are resumed by Australia Post.
EXECUTED by the parties as a Deed the [ ] day of
[
] 19[ ].
Part B — Option in Favour of the Joint Venturers to Purchase
the Water Authority Land
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
(1) In this Part,
unless the context otherwise requires, the following words and expressions
have the following meanings.
“Approved JVA Plan” means a JVA Plan
which has been agreed or determined between the Water Authority and the Joint
Venturers in accordance with the provisions of clause 12;
“Agreement” means the Morley Shopping
Centre Redevelopment Agreement made between the State of Western Australia,
Morley Shopping Centre Pty Limited and The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance
Society Limited ratified by the
Morley Shopping Centre Redevelopment Agreement Act 1992 , in respect of
which this Part is Part B of Schedule 6;
“Business Day” means a day on which
trading banks are open for trading in the State;
“Contract” means the contract for the
sale of the Water Authority Land from the Water Authority to the Joint
Venturers arising from the service by the Joint Venturers on the Water
Authority of an Option Notice;
“CPI” means the Consumer Price Index
compiled by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Perth (Capital City) (All
Groups) or any substitute therefor accepted by the Government of the
Commonwealth of Australia from time to time provided that:
(a) if
the CPI Index Number base adopted by the Australian Statistician for the CPI
Index Number is at any time updated the CPI Index Number is to be
appropriately adjusted from time to time;
(b) if
at any time the Consumer Price Index is discontinued, there is to be
substituted therefor the alternative method of computing changes in the cost
of living which is mutually agreed in writing between the Water Authority and
the Joint Venturers during the period of 20 Business Days after written notice
given by either the Water Authority or the Joint Venturers to the other, or
failing agreement, which is the opinion of an expert appointed by the
President for the time being of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
(Western Australian Division) at the request of the Water Authority or the
Joint Venturers or both of them most closely reflects changes in the cost of
living for the Perth Metropolitan Area (the costs of that expert being borne
by the Water Authority and the Joint Venturers in equal shares); and
(c) if
any alternative index is determined in accordance with subclause (b) and
that index is at any time thereafter discontinued, the reference to the CPI
means from time to time the index determined subject to and in accordance with
the provisions of subclause (b);
“CPI Index Number” means the Index
Number compiled and issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the CPI
for and in respect of a particular CPI Quarter;
“CPI Quarter” means the respective
three monthly periods adopted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the
compilation and issue of CPI;
“ Commercial Arbitration Act” means
the Commercial Arbitration Act 1985 (WA);
“Drainage Facilities” means the sump,
drainage pump station and associated equipment constructed on the Water
Authority Land as at the date of this Agreement and which establishes a ground
water control system;
“Encumbrance” means an agreement for
lease, lease, easement, restrictive covenant, mortgage or charges;
“First Option Fee Review Date” means
31 December 1997;
“IOF Sum” means the sum of
$1,800,000.00.
“Institute of Valuers” means the
Australian Institute of Valuers and Land Economists (INC.) (Western Australian
Division);
“JV Option” means the option to
purchase the Water Authority Land in accordance with the provisions of this
Part;
“JVE Plan” means:
(a) a
detailed plan;
(b) a
detailed specification; and
(c)
having regard to the provisions of clause 12(2), a detailed timetable,
for the WAWA
Relocation Work;
“JV Engineer” means a civil engineer
who has appropriate experience and expertise necessary to enable that person
to undertake all professional services normally undertaken by an engineer for
the purposes of the WAWA Relocation Work;
“Market Value” means the market value
of the relevant land determined having regard to the following:
(a) a
willing, but not anxious, buyer and seller;
(b) a
reasonable period in which to market and then negotiate a sale of the relevant
land, taking into account the nature of the land and the state of the market;
(c) that
the value of the land will remain static during the period referred to in
subclause (b);
(d) that
the relevant land has been freely exposed to the open market;
(e) that
no account will be taken of any higher price that might be paid by an
adjoining owner of the relevant land; and
(f) that
any improvement constructed on the relevant land is disregarded;
“Option Fee” means an amount equal to
7% of the Specified Amount;
“Option Fee Review Date” means the
First Option Fee Review Date and thereafter the date which occurs at the
expiry of each period of 3 years;
“Option Notice” means a notice in
writing from the Joint Venturers to the Water Authority in which the Joint
Venturers give notice of the exercise of the JV Option;
“Option Term” means the period of
20 years commencing on 1 January 1993 and expiring on
31 December 2012;
“Outgoings” means Water Rates,
Municipal Rates, land tax and metropolitan region improvement tax;
“Pipe Facilities” means the water,
drainage and sewage pipes constructed within the Water Authority Land as at
the date of the Agreement;
“Purchase Price” means the purchase
price of the Water Authority Land as specified in clause 10(3);
“Quarter” means each of the following
periods of 3 months;
(a) the
period commencing on 1 January and ending on the next succeeding 31 March;
(b) the
period commencing on 1 April and expiring on the next succeeding 30 June;
(c) the
period commencing on 1 July and expiring on the next succeeding 30 September;
(d) the
period commencing on 1 October and expiring on the next succeeding 31
December;
“Qualified Valuer” means a person who:
(a) is
licensed as a valuer under the Valuation of Land Act 1978 (WA);
(b) is a
member of the Institute of Valuers; and
(c) has
not less than 5 years experience in the valuation of suburban and
regional shopping centres.
“Russell Street Land” means the land
situated in Russell Street, Morley, of which the Water Authority is the
registered proprietor and being:
(a)
Portion of Swan Location T and being part of Lot 1141 on Plan 3401 and
being the whole of the land comprised in Certificate of Title Volume 1924
Folio 482; and
(b)
Portion of Swan Location T and being part of Lot 1142 on Plan 3401 and
being the whole of the land comprised in Certificate of Title Volume 1924
Folio 483; and
“Settlement Date” means the Business
Day which is 25 Business Days after the SPC Date;
“Sewage Pump Facilities” means the
sewage pump station and associated equipment constructed on the WAWA Land as
at the date of the Agreement;
“SPC Date” means the date on which the
last of the following occurs:
(a) the
determination of the Market Value of the Russell Street Land in accordance
with clause 11; and
(b) the
Completion of the WAWA Relocation Work in accordance with clause 13;
Specified Amount means the amount specified in
clause 5;
“WAWA Facilities” means the water,
sewage and drainage facilities established on the Water Authority Land and
includes the Drainage Facilities, Sewage Pump Facilities and the Pipe
Facilities;
“WAWA Relocation Work” means the work
necessary for;
(a) the
relocation of the Drainage Facilities from the Water Authority Land to the
Russell Street Land;
(b) if
necessary, the relocation of the Sewage Pump Facilities; and
(c) if
necessary, the relocation of the Pipe Facilities;
“Winter Period” means the period in
each year commencing on 1 June and ending on 30 October;
(2) (a)
Unless otherwise defined in clause 1(1),
words and expressions which are defined in the Agreement have the same
meanings in this Part.
(b)
without affecting subclause (2)(a) every reference in this part to the
Joint Venturers is a reference to the Joint Venturers and to any person to
whom the interests of the Joint Venturers are assigned in accordance with
clause 16 of the Agreement.
(3) In this Part,
unless otherwise expressly provided, a reference to:
(a) an
Act by name is a reference to an Act of Parliament of the State;
(b) an
Act whether by name or otherwise includes the amendments to the 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;
(c) a
clause is to a clause of this Part;
(d) a
subclause is to a subclause of the clause in which the reference occurs;
(e) the
singular shall include the plural and vice versa ;
(f)
clause headings will not be taken into account in interpreting this Part; and
(g) A
reference to an institute, association, body and authority whether statutory
or otherwise shall, if any institute, body, association or authority ceases to
exist or is reconstituted, renamed or replaced, or its powers or functions are
transferred to any other institute, association, body or authority be treated
as referring respectively to the institute, association, body or authority
established or constituted in its place or as nearly as may be succeeds to the
powers or functions of the institute, association, body or authority referred
to.
2. GRANT OF OPTION
Subject to the provisions of this Part, the Joint
Venturers are granted the JV Option.
3. EXERCISE OF OPTION
The JV Option may be exercised at any time during
the Option Term by the Joint Venturers serving an Option Notice on the Water
Authority.
4. OPTION FEE
(1) The Joint
Venturers will pay the Option Fee to the Water Authority in accordance with
the provisions of this clause.
(2) No Option Fee will
be payable in respect of the Option Term prior to 1 January 1995.
(3) Subject to the
provisions of this Part, the Option Fee will be payable by the Joint Venturers
to the Water Authority quarterly in advance, with the first quarterly payment
of the Option Fee being due in respect of the Quarter commencing on
1 January 1995.
5. SPECIFIED AMOUNT
(1) The Specified
Amount will be the IOF Sum which sum will be subject to review and increase in
accordance with the provisions of this clause.
(2) Subject to
subclause (3), on each Option Fee Review Date the Specified Amount will
be increased by the amount which is equal to percentage increase in the CPI
calculated from 1 January 1993 to each Option Fee Review Date, plus
3.5% per annum.
(3) (a)
The Joint Venturers may by notice in writing to
the Water Authority require that the Market Value of the Russell Street Land
be established as at an Option Fee Review Date.
(b) If
the Joint Venturers serve a notice on the Water Authority in accordance with
subclause (3)(a), the Market Value of the Russell Street Land will be
established as at the Relevant Option Review Date in accordance with the
provisions of clause 9.
(c) If
the Joint Venturers serve a notice in accordance with subclause (3)(a),
the Specified Amount will, as from the Relevant Option Fee Review Date be the
lesser of:
(i)
the sum calculated in accordance with subclause (2);
and
(ii)
the Market Value of the Russell Street Land.
(d) If:
(i)
the Joint Venturers serve a notice in accordance with
subclause (3)(a); and
(ii)
the Specified Amount has not been determined by the
Relevant Option Fee Review Date in accordance with subclause (3)(c),
then, pending the
determination of the Specified Amount in accordance with
subclause (3)(c);
(iii)
the Joint Venturers will pay the Option Fee based on the
Specified Amount which applies immediately prior to the Relevant Option Fee
Review Date; and
(iv)
following the determination of the Specified Amount in
accordance with subclause (3)(c) there will be an adjustment between the
Water Authority and the Joint Venturers on the day when the next payment of
the Option Fee is due by the Joint Venturers on the basis that the Joint
Venturers will pay any shortfall in the Option Fee paid since the Relevant
Option Fee Review Date and if the Option Fee has been overpaid by the Joint
Venturers, the Water Authority will grant an appropriate credit to the Joint
Venturers or, if so requested by the Joint Venturers, pay to the Joint
Venturers the amount of the overpayment.
6. CANCELLATION OF THE JV OPTION BY THE JOINT
VENTURERS
(1) The Joint
Venturers will be entitled at any time during the Option Term to cancel the JV
Option by giving not less than 10 Business Days’ notice in writing to
the Water Authority prior to the end of a Quarter.
(2) If the Joint
Venturers give a notice in accordance with subclause (1), the JV Option
will be cancelled as at the date of service on the Water Authority of the
notice specified in subclause (1).
(3) If the Joint
Venturers serve a notice in accordance with subclause (1), the obligation
of the Joint Venturers to pay the Option Fee will be cancelled with effect
from the last day of the Quarter in which the notice is served.
7. WAWA TO ISSUE INVOICES FOR OPTION FEE
(1) The Water
Authority will not later than 15 Business Days prior to the Quarter commencing
on 1 January 1995, and thereafter not later than 15 Business
Days prior to the commencement of each succeeding Quarter during the Option
Term, issue to each Joint Venturer a notice showing the amount payable by the
Joint Venturers to the Water Authority on account of the Option Fee and
specifying the due date for payment of the Option Fee.
(2) The invoice
referred to in subclause (1) will incorporate a notice to the Joint
Venturers warning the Joint Venturers that if payment of the Option Fee is
more than 6 months in arrears, the JV Option is liable to cancellation by
the Water Authority.
8. CANCELLATION OF JV OPTION ARISING FROM
NON-PAYMENT OF OPTION FEES
Subject to clauses 7(1) and 7(2), if the
Joint Venturers are more than 6 months in arrears in payment of the
Option Fee, the JV Option will, on notice in writing from the Water Authority
to the Joint Venturers at any time after the expiry of the 6 month period
when the Option Fee is in arrear, be cancelled.
9. DETERMINATION OF MARKET VALUE
(1) Where it is
necessary to determine the Market Value of land in accordance with this Part,
the following provisions will apply.
(2) The Joint
Venturers and the Water Authority will meet with each other within 30 Business
Days of the requirement arising for the Market Value to be determined with the
intention that the Joint Venturers and the Water Authority will agree the
Market Value in writing.
(3) If the Joint
Venturers and the Water Authority meet and agree the Market Value in writing
in the manner specified in subclause (2), the Market Value of the land
will be the amount agreed in writing between the Joint Venturers and the Water
Authority.
(4) If the Joint
Venturers and the Water Authority do not meet or are unable to agree the
Market Value in writing in accordance with subclause (2) within the
period specified in subclause (2), the Market Value of the relevant land
will be determined in accordance with the following provisions;
(a) the
Market Value will be determined by arbitration under the
Commercial Arbitration Act;
(b) the
arbitrator or arbitrators who will conduct the arbitration will be agreed
between the Water Authority and the Joint Venturers within 10 Business Days of
the requirement for arbitration arising or failing agreement the arbitrator
will be a Qualified Valuer nominated by the President of the Institute of
Valuers on the application of either the Joint Venturers or the Water
Authority;
(c) the
decision of the arbitrator will be final and binding on the Joint Venturers
and the Water Authority; and
(d) for
the purposes of the Commercial Arbitration Act, both the Joint Venturers and
the Water Authority may be represented in the arbitration proceedings by a
qualified legal practitioner;
(e) each
of the Water Authority and the Joint Venturers will pay their own legal and
other costs in connection with the arbitration; and
(f) the
costs of the arbitrator, and all other costs relating to the arbitration
itself, will be shared between the Water Authority and the Joint Venturers in
equal shares.
10. SALE OF WAWA LAND ON SERVICE OF OPTION NOTICE
(1) If the Joint
Venturers serve on the Water Authority an Option Notice, the Water Authority
will sell to the Joint Venturers and the Joint Venturers will purchase the
Water Authority Land.
(2) On the service of
an Option Notice:
(a)
subject to subclause (5) the obligation of the Joint Venturers to pay the
Option Fee will cease;
(b) the
Market Value of the Russell Street Land will be determined in accordance with
clause 11; and
(c) The
Joint Venturers will, at the cost of the Joint Venturers, undertake or cause
to be undertaken, the WAWA Relocation Work in accordance with clauses 12
and 13.
(3) The Purchase Price
of the Water Authority Land will be the lesser of the following:
(a) the
IOF Sum increased by the amount which represents the percentage increase in
the CPI calculated from 1 January 1993 to the end of the Quarter
which immediately precedes the service of the Option Notice plus 3.5% per
annum; and
(b) the
Market Value of the Russell Street Land as at the date of service of the
Option Notice.
(4) Following the SPC
Date, settlement of the sale of the WAWA Land from WAWA to the Joint Venturers
will be effected on the Settlement Date in accordance with the provisions of
clause 15.
(5) If there is a
delay in settlement of the purchase of the Russell Street Land of more than
5 months following the service of the Option Notice, the Joint Venturers
will, on settlement under clause 15 pay to the Water Authority in
addition to the Purchase Price the amount which represents the Option Fee from
the expiry of the 5 month period until the settlement date.
11. MARKET VALUE OF THE RUSSELL STREET LAND
(1) Within 30 Business
Days of Service of the Option Notice, the Joint Venturers and WAWA will meet
with the intention of reaching agreement in writing as to the Market Value of
the Russell Street Land as at the date of service of the Option Notice.
(2) If the Joint
Venturers and the Water Authority reach agreement in writing as to the Market
Value of the Russell Street Land within the period specified in
subclause (1), the Market Value of the Russell Street Land will be the
amount agreed in writing between the Joint Venturers and the Water Authority.
(3) If the Joint
Venturers and the Water Authority:
(a) do
not meet as provided in subclause (1); or
(b) are
unable to reach agreement in writing as to the Market Value of the Russell
Street Land in accordance with subclause (2),
then the Market Value
of the Russell Street Land will be determined in accordance with
clause 9.
12. WAWA RELOCATION WORK
(1) Subject to the
provisions of this clause, the Joint Venturers will, as soon as practicable in
the circumstances after the service of an Option Notice, undertake or cause to
WAWA Relocation Work to be undertaken.
(2) The WAWA
Relocation Work must:
(a) not
be undertaken during the Winter Period;
(b) be
undertaken in a manner so that the services provided by the Water Authority in
accordance with the WAWA Facilities will, as far as is practicable, not be
affected by the WAWA Relocation Work;
(c) be
undertaken on the basis that the WAWA Facilities will, following the WAWA
Relocation Work, be re-established on the basis that the WAWA Facilities will
be of the same standard and same specification as at the date of this
Agreement; and
(d) be
undertaken in a proper and workmanlike manner.
(3) Within 20 Business
Days of the service of an Option Notice by the Joint Venturers, the Joint
Venturers will appoint the JV Engineer.
(4) Within 30 Business
Days of the service of the Option Notice, the Joint Venturers will cause the
JV Engineer alone or with representatives of the Joint Venturers to meet with
the Water Authority, and the Water Authority will meet with the JV Engineer
and any representative of the Joint Venturers for the following purposes.
(a) The
provision by the Water Authority to the Joint Venturers of:
(i)
the performance specification for the WAWA Facilities as
at the date of this Agreement; and
(ii)
detailed plans and specifications of the WAWA Facilities.
(b)
Discussing whether the Sewage Pump Facilities will remain in their then
present position on the Water Authority Land, or relocated to another area on
the Water Authority Land or on the Development Area.
(c)
Without affecting the provisions of subclause (b), if the Sewage Pump
Facilities remain in their then present position on the Water Authority Land,
it will be necessary that adequate access be provided in respect of the Sewage
Pump Facilities to the Water Authority in any development constructed on the
Water Authority Land after its acquisition by the Joint Venturers.
(d)
Discussing whether the Pipe Facilities will remain in their then present
position on the Water Authority Land or be relocated to another area on the
Water Authority Land or on the Development Area.
(e) The
criteria and requirements of the Water Authority for the WAWA Relocation Work
and in that regard, the WAWA Relocation Work will be undertaken to the
reasonable design requirement of the Water Authority.
(5) If the Water
Authority and the JV Engineer, with or without a representative of the Joint
Venturers do not meet for the purposes as specified in subclause (4), or
if a meeting takes place but not all the matters specified in
subclause (4) are satisfactorily resolved, the Water Authority will,
within 40 Business Days of the service of the Option Notice, produce the
following to the Joint Venturers in writing —
(a) The
performance specification of the WAWA Facilities as at the date of this
Agreement.
(b) Full
plans and specifications of the WAWA Facilities.
(c)
Subject to subclause (f) notification as to whether the Sewage Pump
Facilities are to remain in their present position on the Water Authority
Land, or are to be relocated to another area on the Water Authority Land or on
the Development Area, and if the Sewage Pump Facilities are to be relocated to
another area, then particulars of that area on the Water Authority Land or on
the Development Area.
(d)
Whether the Pipe Facilities are to remain in their present position on the
Water Authority Land or to be relocated to another area on the Water Authority
Land or on the Development Area and if the Water Authority requires the Pipe
Facilities to be relocated to another area, then the area on the Water
Authority Land or the Development Area to which the Pipe Facilities are to be
relocated.
(e) The
criteria and reasonable design requirements of the Water Authority for the
WAWA Relocation Work.
(f) The
Water Authority will make a determination as to whether the Sewage Pump
Facilities are to remain in their present position or be relocated, having
regard to the reasonable requirements of the Joint Venturers as notified by
the Joint Venturers to the Water Authority, but subject to the Water Authority
being satisfied, if the Sewage Pump Facilities are required by the Joint
Venturers to remain in their present position that the Water Authority will,
after the transfer of the Water Authority Land to the Joint Venturers, be
capable of continuing to provide the necessary services at the same level as
at the date of exercise of the option.
(6) Within 45 Business
Days of:
(a) a
meeting between the Water Authority and the JV Engineer (and with or without a
representative of the Joint Venturers) in accordance with subclause (4);
or
(b) the
delivery of the written information provided by the Water Authority to the
Joint Venturers in accordance with subclause (5),
the Joint Venturers either personally or through
the JV Engineer will deliver the JVE Plan to the Water Authority.
(7) (a)
Within 20 Business Days of the delivery of the JVE
Plan in accordance with subclause (6), the Water Authority will notify
the Joint Venturers whether in the opinion of the Water Authority the JVE
Plan:
(i)
meets the requirements of this clause; or
(ii)
requires modification.
(b) If
the Water Authority notifies the Joint Venturers that in the opinion of the
Water Authority the JVE Plan requires modification so as to comply with the
requirements of this clause, the Water Authority will, when notifying the
Joint Venturers under subclause (a), notify the Joint Venturers of the
reasons for the opinion of the Water Authority and of the requirements of the
Water Authority with regard to the JVE Plan.
(c) If
the Water Authority serves a notice on the Joint Venturers under
subclause (a)(ii) and subclause (b), the Joint Venturers will,
within 10 Business Days of service of the notice by the Water Authority meet
with the Water Authority with a view to the Joint Venturers and the Water
Authority reaching agreement in writing as to the JVE Plan.
(d) If
the provisions of subclause (a) apply and the Joint Venturers and the
Water Authority reach agreement in writing concerning the JVE Plan, then the
JVE Plan as so agreed will be the Approved JVE Plan in accordance with which
the WAWA Relocation Work will be undertaken.
(e) If:
(i)
the provisions of subclause (c) apply; and
(ii)
the Joint Venturers and the Water Authority are unable to
agree the JVE Plan in accordance with subclause (d),
then any matters then
in dispute relating to the JVE Plan will be determined by arbitration in
accordance with the provisions of clause 14.
13. WAWA RELOCATION WORK
(1) The Joint
Venturers will, as soon as practicable after a JVE Plan has been agreed or
determined in accordance with clause 12, cause the WAWA Relocating Work
to be undertaken in accordance with the Approved JVE Plan and this clause.
(2) The Joint
Venturers will invite tenders for the undertaking of the WAWA Relocation Work
and in that regard, the Joint Venturers will invite the Water Authority to
tender for the purpose of undertaking the WAWA Relocation Work.
(3) For the purposes
of subclause (2), the Joint Venturers will provide to the Water Authority
a copy of the tender documentation at the same time as the tender
documentation is first provided to another person.
(4) Following the
completion of the tender process, the Joint Venturers will cause the WAWA
Relocation Work to be commenced by the person determined by the Joint
Venturers following completion of the tender process, in accordance with the
Approved JVE Plan and thereafter completed.
(5) If the WAWA
Relocation Work is undertaken by a person other than the Water Authority, then
the following provisions will apply.
(a)
Insofar as the Joint Venturers are able to do so, the Joint Venturers will, on
reasonable notice from the Water Authority, and at a reasonable time, grant
access to the Water Authority to any place specified by the Water Authority
where the WAWA Relocation Work is being undertaken to enable the Water
Authority to inspect and review the progress of the WAWA Relocation Work.
(b) On
completion of the WAWA Relocation Work, the Joint Venturers will give notice
in writing to the Water Authority of the completion of the WAWA Relocation
Work.
(c) If,
following service of a notice by the Joint Venturers on the Water Authority
under subclause (5)(b), there is a dispute as to whether the WAWA
Relocation Work has been completed in accordance with the requirements of the
Approved JVE Plan, then that dispute will be resolved by arbitration in
accordance with clause 14.
14. RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES CONCERNING MATTERS
RELATING TO THE WAWA RELOCATION WORK
(1) Where any dispute
is required to be determined by arbitration in accordance with clauses 12
and 13, the following provisions will apply.
(2) The dispute will
be determined by arbitration conducted in accordance with the
Commercial Arbitration Act.
(3) The arbitrator
will be one or more arbitrators agreed between the Water Authority and the
Joint Venturers within 10 Business Days of the requirement for a dispute to be
determined by arbitration, and failing agreement, will be determined by one
arbitrator who is a civil engineer appointed by the President of the
Institution of Engineers Australia (WA Division) on the application of either
the Water Authority or the Joint Venturers.
(4) The decision of
the arbitrator will be final and binding on the Joint Venturers and the Water
Authority.
(5) The Water
Authority and the Joint Venturers will be entitled to be represented by a
qualified legal practitioner in any arbitration proceedings conducted in
accordance with this clause.
(6) The Joint
Venturers and the Water Authority will each bear their own legal costs and
expenses relating to the arbitration.
(7) The Water
Authority and the Joint Venturers will each share one-half of the costs of the
arbitrator and other costs relating to the arbitration.
15. SETTLEMENT PROVISIONS
(1) Following the SPC
Date, settlement of the sale of the Water Authority Land by the Water
Authority to the Joint Venturers will be effected in accordance with the
provisions of this clause.
(2) The Water
Authority Land will be sold and transferred from the Water Authority to the
Joint Venturers free of all encumbrances other than:
(a) any
reservation or condition contained in the Crown Grant of the Water Authority
Land;
(b) the
easement over the Water Authority Land granted by the Water Authority to the
Joint Venturers as the proprietor of land within the Development Area; and
(c) any
easement reasonably required by the Water Authority, which has been notified
by the Water Authority to the Joint Venturers a reasonable time prior to the
SPC Date and which easement is required by the Water Authority for the purpose
of any Water Authority Facilities which will remain in the Water Authority
Land after settlement. The terms of any easement under this subclause will be
agreed between the Water Authority and the Joint Venturers not later than
10 Business Days prior to the SDC Date or failing agreement, will be the
easement terms reasonably required by the Water Authority.
(3) The Water
Authority Land will be transferred to the Joint Venturers as tenants in common
in the same proportions as the Joint Venturers are then the registered
proprietors of the Development Area and if there is only one person who is
then the registered proprietor of the Development Area, then to that person
only.
(4) A reasonable time
prior to the Settlement Date, the Joint Venturers will prepare, execute and
deliver to the Water Authority, for execution by the Water Authority prior to
settlement, a registrable transfer of the Water Authority Land in favour of
the Joint Venturers.
(5) Settlement of the
sale of the Water Authority Land will take place on the Settlement Date at the
offices of the Joint Venturers’ Solicitors in Perth or at any other
place in Perth nominated by the Joint Venturers by notice in writing to the
Water Authority not less than 5 Business Days prior to the Settlement date. At
settlement:
(a) the
Purchase Price will be paid by the Joint Venturers to the Water Authority by
bank cheque made payable to the Water Authority or to any other person as the
Water Authority nominates in writing to the Joint Venturers not later than
5 Business Days prior to the Settlement Date;
(b) the
Water Authority will deliver to the Joint Venturers:
(1) the duplicate
Certificates of Title to the Water Authority Land; and
(2) the transfer of
the Water Authority Land duly executed by the Water Authority.
If for any reason a
bank cheque tendered as or towards the Purchase Price is not paid on
presentation the Joint Venturers will remain liable to pay the amount payable
under that bank cheque.
(6) The Water
Authority will grant vacant possession of the Water Authority Land to the
Joint Venturers on settlement.
(7) The Water
Authority will pay all Outgoings up to the Settlement Date from which date
they shall be payable by the Joint Venturers and will be apportioned if
necessary. Any amount owing by one party to the other shall be paid or allowed
on settlement.
(8) The Joint
Venturers will not be entitled to make or give Requisitions on Title to the
Water Authority relating to the Water Authority Land.
(9) (a)
Notwithstanding any rule of law or equity to the
contrary, the Water Authority Land shall be at the risk of the Water Authority
until the whole of the Purchase Price is paid or the Joint Venturers are
entitled to or given possession of the Water Authority Land, whichever is the
earliest and thereupon the risk shall pass to the Joint Venturers.
(b) If
the Water Authority Land includes a building or other improvement, any part of
which is damaged or destroyed prior to the risk passing to the Joint
Venturers, the Purchase Price shall not be affected.
(10) Time is of the
essence in respect of the Contract in all respects.
(11) (a)
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this
clause neither the Water Authority nor the Joint Venturers will be entitled to
terminate the Contract on the ground of the other’s default in
performing or observing an obligation imposed on that other party under the
Contract, unless:
(i)
the party not in default first has given to the party in
default (the “defaulting party”) a written notice specifying the
default complained of, which notice is to require that the default is remedied
within the period stipulated in the notice; and
(ii)
the defaulting party fails to remedy the default within
the period stipulated in that notice.
(b) The
period stipulated in the written notice referred to in subclause (a) is
not to be less than 10 Business Days.
(c) The
giving of a notice under this subclause does not prejudice the right of either
party to give a further notice under this subclause.
(d) This
subclause is not to apply where either party repudiates the Contract.
(12) (a)
If the Joint Venturers default in performing or
observing an obligation imposed on the Joint Venturers under the Contract and
fail to remedy that default following a notice under subclause 11(a) or
if the Joint Venturers repudiate the Contract, then the Water Authority, in
addition to the other rights or remedies which the Water Authority has under
the Contract or otherwise, may:
(i)
affirm the Contract and sue the Joint Venturers for
damages for breach;
(ii)
affirm the Contract and sue the Joint Venturers for
specific performance of the Contract and damages for breach in addition to, or
in lieu of, specific performance of the Contract;
(iii)
proceed to take or recover possession of the Water
Authority Land; or
(iv)
terminate the Contract and:
(A) sue the Joint Venturers for damages for
breach; and
(B) without further notice to the Joint
Venturers, re-sell the Water Authority Land in the manner which the Water
Authority in good faith deems fit and if a deficiency arises from that re-sale
and expenses have been incurred by the Water Authority that deficiency and
those expenses are recoverable by the Water Authority from the Joint Venturers
as liquidated damages.
(b) If
the Water Authority terminates the Contract and if the Water Authority
re-sells the Water Authority Land the Water Authority may retain absolutely
the surplus (if any) arising from the re-sale in excess of the Purchase Price
and expenses arising from the re-sale and all losses and expenses incurred by
the Water Authority resulting from the Joint Venturers default.
(13) If the Water
Authority defaults in performing or observing an obligation imposed on the
Water Authority under the Contract and the Water Authority fails to remedy
that default following service of a notice under subclause 11(a), or if
the Water Authority repudiates the Contract, then in addition to other rights
and remedies which the Joint Venturers have under the Contract or otherwise
the Joint Venturers are entitled to the repayment of all moneys paid by the
Joint Venturers under the Contract.
(14) The rule of law
known as the rule in Bain v. Fothergill whereby damages recoverable from a
vendor incapable of making good title are limited is hereby excluded and does
not apply to the sale of the WAWA land from the Water Authority to the Joint
Venturers.
(15) Each of the Joint
Venturers and the Water Authority shall bear their own legal and other costs
and expenses but the Joint Venturers will pay stamp duty on the transfer of
the Water Authority land to the Joint Venturers. Any party in default shall
pay all costs incurred by the other party in respect to the default and
notices relating to that default.
(16) The Water
Authority will at the Water Authority’s cost do all things necessary to
enable a registrable transfer of the Water Authority Land to be accepted and
registered by the Titles Office.
16. NOTICES
(1) The provisions of
clause 27 of the Agreement will apply in respect of Notices from the
Water Authority to the Joint Venturers and from the Joint Venturers to the
Water Authority.
(2) For the purpose of
subclause (1) and clause 27 of the Agreement the relevant
particulars for the Water Authority are as follows:
Water Authority of Western Australia
629 Newcastle Street
LEEDERVILLE WA 6007
Facsimile: (09) 420 3173
17. RESTRICTIONS ON THE WATER AUTHORITY
(1) The Water
Authority will not grant or create any Encumbrance over the Water Authority
Land which is not capable of being withdrawn surrendered or terminated prior
to the Settlement Date.
(2) Subject to the
provisions of subclauses (3) and (4) the Water Authority will not install
any additional facilities in or on the Water Authority Land without the prior
written approval of the Joint Venturers.
(3) The provisions of
subclause (2) do not apply in respect of the replacement of any Water
Authority Facilities installed within the Water Authority Land as at the date
of the Agreement.
(4) If the Water
Authority installs additional facilities in or on the Water Authority Land
after the date of the Agreement without the approval of the Joint Venturers
the cost of relocating those facilities will not form part of the WAWA
Relocation Cost.
(5) The provisions of
this clause will apply:
(a)
During the Option Term, while the JV Option is current; and
(b) If
an Option Notice is served, then from the date of service of the Option Notice
until settlement.
18. TERMINATION OF LIABILITY ON CANCELLATION
If the JV Option is cancelled by the Joint
Venturers or by the Water Authority in accordance with the provisions of this
Part then as from the date of cancellation, but subject to any claim which
arose prior to the date of cancellation, the Joint Venturers and the Water
Authority are released from all obligations under this Part as from the date
of cancellation.
19. JV ENGINEER — NOTICES AND
COMMUNICATIONS
(1) Where, in
accordance with clause 12, the Joint Venturers appoint the JV Engineer
for the purpose of providing professional services in relation to the WAWA
Relocation Work, the following provisions will apply.
(2) The Joint
Venturers will, as soon as practicable following the appointment of the JV
Engineer give notice to the Water Authority of:
(a) the
appointment of the JV Engineer; and
(b) the
name, address and facsimile number of the JV Engineer;
(3) Following
notification from the Joint Venturers to the Water Authority under
subclause (2), any notice or written communication required to be given
under clauses 12 and 13;
(a) by
the Joint Venturers to the Water Authority — may be given by
the JV Engineer on behalf of the Joint Venturers; and
(b) any
notice or communication required to be given by the Water Authority to the
Joint Venturers — may be given by the Water Authority to the
JV Engineer.
20. CONSERVATION OF WATER
The Joint Venturers will, insofar as it is
reasonable, economical and practicable to do so, implement measures for the
conservation of water within the Morley Shopping Centre.
SCHEDULE 7
COLONIAL MUTUAL/COLES MYER GROUP
PROPOSED REDEVELOPMENT AT MORLEY CITY
SHOPPING CENTRE
SCHEDULE SHOWING CALCULATIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS IN ESTIMATE OF STAMP DUTY
Notes
1. The freehold land at Morley is presently owned
by The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited (“CML”),
Coles Myer Limited (“Coles Myer”) and Myer Properties WA Limited
(“MPWA”).
2. MPWA is a member of the Coles Myer Group and a
subsidiary of Coles Myer.
3. The Coles Myer Group will be undertaking the
redevelopment of the Morley Shopping Centre in joint venture with CML through
its subsidiary Morley Shopping Centre Pty Ltd (“MSC”).
4. For the purposes of the Morley City Shopping
Centre Redevelopment, there will be an equal joint venture between MSC as the
Coles Myer Group company, and CML (the “Joint Venture”).
5. For the purposes of the redevelopment, it will
be necessary for the following land transfers to take place.
(a)
Coles Myer to transfer a half share of the Coles Myer land to CML.
(b)
Coles Myer to transfer a half share of the Coles Myer land to MSC.
(c) MPWA
to transfer a half share of the MPWA land to CML.
(d) MPWA
to transfer a half share of the MPWA land to MSC.
(e) CML
to transfer a half share in the CML land to MSC.
6. On completion of the land transfers referred to
in note 5, CML and MSC will own the Morley freehold land in equal undivided
half shares each.
7. The Government has agreed to the following.
(a) The
issue of title to the Joint Venture in respect of the Johnsmith Street Road
Reserve. The Joint Venture will pay $200,000.00 to the Government in this
regard.
(b) The
grant of a 99 year lease at a nominal rental of $100.00 per annum in
respect of Reserve 40963 and the adjoining road reserve (the “Russell
Street Reserve”).
Under the Stamp Act, the issue of title in respect
of the Johnsmith Street Road Reserve and in respect of the Russell Street
Reserve, are both exempt from stamp duty in accordance with Item 2(6) of the
Third Schedule to the Stamp Act .
8. The Agreement with the Government (the
“Government Agreement”) will incorporate reference to the land
transactions referred to in note 7. The Government Agreement will also
incorporate reference to the other Agreements between the Government and the
Joint Venture, including those limiting council and water rates and the refund
of stamp duty, together with grants of rights of carriageway and options of
purchase. It has been assumed that only nominal duty will be assessed on the
Government Agreement and in particular, that no duty will be assessed with
regard to the land transactions referred to in note 7, for the reasons
set out in note 7.
9. A Joint Venture Agreement will be entered into
between CML and MSC concerning the redevelopment and the establishment of the
Joint Venture. The Joint Venture Agreement will include reference to the land
transfers mentioned in note 5. In addition, the Joint Venture Agreement
includes the obligation of MSC to pay to CML the sum of $15,500,000.00. The
sum of $15,500,000.00 represents an advance payment of purchase price by MSC
to CML for the land referred to in Item 5. If the conditions necessary for the
establishment of the Joint Venture are not satisfied CML is obliged to repay
the $15,500,000.00 to MSC. The payment of the $15,500,000.00 represents in
effect a payment similar to a deposit for the land transfer by CML to MSC
under note 5 and the obligation by MSC to repay the sum of $15,500,000.00
represents an obligation similar to an obligation to refund the deposit where
a land sale transaction does not proceed. It is assumed that the State
Taxation Department will treat these obligations as part of the sale
transactions under note 5 and not subject to any other duty. It has been
assumed that the Joint Venture Agreement will be assessed for nominal duty and
that no duty will be assessed in respect of the land transfers referred to in
note 5, as duty will be assessed separately in respect of those transactions.
Coles Myer will be a party to the Joint Venture Agreement as guarantor, but it
is assumed that as Coles Myer is a party to this Agreement, there will be no
separate assessment in respect of the guarantee.
10. Under Section 75AF of the Stamp Act where
transactions arise, from or substantially from one transaction or one series
of transactions, those transactions are treated as one for the calculation of
duty.
11. On the assumption that the State Taxation
Department will accept that the purchase price agreed to be paid on the land
transfers referred to in note 5, are as set out below, and on the basis as set
out above, it is calculated that total duty will be assessed in respect of the
transactions necessary to establish the Joint Venture in the total sum of
$1,437,594.00, as below.
12. For the purpose of assessment of duty, no
account has been made of copies of documents which are subject to duty at
$2.00 each. References below to item numbers are to item numbers in the Second
Schedule to the Stamp Act .
|
Document/ Transfer |
Parties |
Consideration/ Purchase Price (If applicable) |
Item for Calculation of Duty |
Duty |
|
Contract of Sale/Transfer |
Coles Myer/CML |
$4,059,174.00 |
4 |
$168,041.00 |
|
Contract of Sale/Transfer |
Coles Myer/MSC |
$4,059,174.00 |
4 |
$172,516.00 |
|
Contract of Sale/Transfer |
MPWA/CML |
$2,584,376.00 |
4 |
$109,837.00 |
|
Contract of Sale/Transfer |
MPWA/MSC |
$2,584,376.00 |
4 |
$109,837.00 |
|
Contract of Sale/Transfer |
CML/MSC |
$20,643,550.00 |
4 |
$877,353.00 |
|
Agreement |
State of Western Australia, CML, MSC |
Deed |
8 |
$5.00 |
|
Joint Venture Agreement |
MSC, CML, Coles Myer |
Deed |
8 |
$5.00 |
| | | | |
$1,437,594.00 |
EXECUTED by the parties.
|
Signed for and behalf of The State of Western Australia by THE HONOURABLE
CARMEN MARY LAWRENCE MLA |
) |
|
|
THE COMMON SEAL of MORLEY SHOPPING CENTRE PTY LIMITED was hereunto affixed in
accordance with its Articles of Association in the presence of: ______________________________ |
) |
Director/Secretary ______________________ |
|
THE COMMON SEAL of THE COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED was
hereunto affixed in accordance with its Articles of Association in the
presence of: ______________________________ |
) |
Director/Secretary ______________________ |