Bunbury Port Authority Amendment Act 1987 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

BUNBURY PORT AUTHORITY

AMENDMENT ACT

No. 53 of 1987

AN ACT to amend the Bunbury Port Authority Act 1909.

[Assented to 5 November 1987]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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:—

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Bunbury Port Authority Amendment

Act 1987.

No. 53] Bunbury Port Authority Amendment Act [1987

Section 25 repealed and

sections 25 and 25A substituted

2. Section 25 of the Bunbury Port Authority Act 1909* is repealed

and the following sections are substituted

Power of Port Authority to lease certain lands

25. (1) The Port Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, grant leases of any of the lands vested in it by or under this Act, as yards or sites for shipbuilding, boat building, storage of timber, coal, merchandise or other property, or for the erection of workshops or foundries or for any other purpose approved by the Minister.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), every lease granted under this section

(a)	shall be granted on such terms and conditions as the Port Authority thinks fit; and
(b)	shall not be granted for a longer term than 21 years.

(3) When the Minister is of opinion that because of the special circumstances of the case the granting of a lease for a term exceeding 21 years is justified, the Minister may, by instrument in writing and containing such conditions, if any, as he thinks fit, authorize the Port Authority to grant the lease for such term exceeding 21 years but not exceeding 50 years as the Minister specifies in the instrument.

(4) A lease for a term exceeding 3 years shall not be granted under this section unless applications have first been advertised twice in the Government Gazette and twice in a newspaper circulating in Bunbury.

Power of Port Authority to grant licences

25A. (1) Subject to subsection (2) the Port Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, grant a licence for the occupation or use of any of the lands vested in it by or under this Act for any purpose that it considers fit.

(2) A licence granted under subsection (1) for a term not exceeding 60 days may be granted without the approval of the Minister. ".

[*Reprinted as authorised 22 January 1970 and amended by Acts Nos.

12 of 1976, 78 of 1979, 98 of 1985 and 79 of 1986.]