Abattoirs Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

No. 65.] Abattoirs. [1963.

ABATTOIRS.

12° Elizabeth II., No. LXV.

No. 65 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend the Abattoirs Act, 1909-1954.

[Assented to 18th December, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Abattoirs Act

Amendment Act, 1963.

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Reprinted	(2) In this Act the Abattoirs Act, 1909-1954, is
Acts

approved for	referred to as the principal Act.
reprint 11th August, 1955.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Abattoirs Act, 1909-1963.

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2. This Act shall come into operation on a date ment.

to IN fixed by proclamation.

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3. Section two of the principal Act is amended amended.

(a)	by deleting the words, "or the board of a	See s. 9 (4) Act No. 84 of
road district" in line two of the interpreta-	1960.
tion "Local Authority"; and

(b) by substituting for the interpretation, "Midland Junction abattoir" the following

See s. 4 Act

No. 31 of

1909.

interpretation, "Midland Junction Abattoir" means the abattoir at Midland Junction established under section four of this Act, and maintained and managed by the Board since the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and fifty-three, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and includes the saleyard. .

4. Section three of the principal Act is amended

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amended.

(a)	by substituting for the word, "This" being the first word in subsection (1), the passage, "Subject to subsection (4) of this section, this"; and
(b)	by adding a subsection as follows

(4) Subsections (1), (2) and (3) of this section apply only to those portions of the State in which, on the date of the coming into operation of the Abattoirs Act Amendment Act, 1963, this Act is in force, and after that date, this Act shall be in force only in such portions of the State as are declared, in a resolution adopted by both Houses of Parliament, to be districts for the purposes of this Act.

5. Section five of the principal Act is amended

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amended.

(a) by substituting for the passage, "subsec- tions (2) and" in lines one and two of subsection (1), the word, "subsection";

and

(b) by repealing subsection (2).

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amended. 6. Section six of the principal Act is amended

(a) by deleting the subsection designation (1) in line one; and

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No. 30 of	(b) by repealing subsection (2).
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amended. 7. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subsec-

tion (2) of section fifteen of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "employees" being the last word in the subparagraph, the words, "and in particular may employ and engage a person to be the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Board".