Boat Licensing Act amendment (1886) (WA)

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Boat Licensing Act—Amendment

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO

VICTORIE REGIN_LE

No. 11

An Act to amend The Boat Licensing Act, 1878!

[Assented to 28th July, 1886.

Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the

1. Every Licensing Board shall have power to regulate the number Regulations by

of persons to be employed in the working of any boat, vessel, or steamer 13'1

to be licensed, and the manner in which goods (including passengers'

baggage) shall be stowed or carried in any such boat, vessel, or steamer ;

and every such regulation as aforesaid shall be specified in the license ;

but no such regulation as aforesaid shall be made to apply to any boat,

vessel, or steamer to be licensed to carry goods only.

2. Notwithstanding anything in The Boat Licensing Act, 1878,' Board may

contained, the Licensing Board may in any case in which it shall 1.:,,1117gler,aetrs pounds. Every exemption under the authority of this section shall be endorsed by the Board upon the license.

appear to the Board that the carrying of a sufficient number of life to carry boat

buoys will ensure adequate protection of life, exempt any steamer from

the obligation of carrying or towing astern a boat, and such exemption

may be a general exemption or limited to certain of the waters on which

such steamer may be licensed to ply. In every case in which the Board

shall grant any exemption as aforesaid, the Board shall specify in the

license the number of life buoys to be carried by such steamer, and

every such life buoy shall be considered of the equipment of such

steamer and shall be kept so secured thereon as to be ready for imme-

diate use ; in default whereof the master and the owner of such steamer

shall each of them on summary conviction before any Justice of the

3. The words anywise unsound or incomplete,' in the lath line of Amendment of

the 6th section of The Boat Licensing Act, 1878,' are hereby repealed, ;l2Vre,,Vol.li

and the words unsound or incomplete in any material particular' shall

be inserted and read in lieu thereof.

4. The license of every boat, vessel or steamer now licensed, or that	Existing licenses
to run to end of

may be granted before the last day of February next, under The Boat	February next
Licensing Act, 1878,' shall, subject to the powers of the Licensing Board to suspend or restrict the license, remain in force until the last day of February next.

5. From and after the last day of February next every license expire last dayLicenses to

granted to any boat, vessel, or steamer shall, subject to the powers of	of February in
the Licensing Board to suspend or restrict the license, remain in force	every year
until the last day of February next following the date from which the

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said license shall commence : and the form of license in Schedule A of

the said Act shall be altered accordingly.

Board luny 6. Any Licensing Board may extend a license granted to any boat,

extend license

vessel, or steamer for a period not exceeding one month, on payment of

the full license fee for the ensuing year.

Temporary

licenses

7. Any Licensing Board may grant a temporary license to any boat, vessel, or steamer for a period not exceeding seven days, on payment of a fee of One pound.

Licenses and

Fees for 8. In lieu of the Scale of Charges for Licenses and Surveys

Surveys

contained in Schedule B of the said Act, the following scale shall be

substituted :—

License Fees

s. d.

For every boat ... ... 0 10 0

For every vessel or steamer ... ... 1 0 0

Survey Fees

For surveying the hull and gear of any boat,

vessel, or steamer ... ... ... . ... 1 1 0

For surveying the boiler, engine or machinery

of any steamer ... ... ... ... 1 1 0

9. This Act and' The Boat Licensing Act of 1878' shall be read

and construed together as one Act.

F. NAPIER BROOME,

GOVERNOR.