Central Board of Works amendment (1849) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO DUODECIMO

VICTORIA; REGINA..

No. XXIII.

An Ordinance to alter the existing Law for the Establishment of a Central Board of Works, and to make other provision in- stead thereof.

HEREAS the system of management of the internal commu- preamble,

Wnications of the colony by means of a Central Board of

Works has been found to be inefficient and unsuited to existing circum-

stances,

12th Vict. No. 23. 1849.

stances, and it has been deemed expedient that the existing law upon the subject should be altered, and that the care and superintendence of the construction and management of roads and bridges, as well as

Part of 16th Vict.	other Public Works, should revert to the Executive Government ;
No. 19, establishing	Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor of West ern
Central Board, re-	Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent
pealed.	of the Legislative Council thereof, that so much of the Ordinance passed in the tenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled " an Ordinance to repeal the existing Laws respecting the construction and management of roads, and to establish a Central Board of Works, as provides for the establishment of a Central Board of Works or of Local Boards for each district, shall be and the same is hereby repeal- ed, and that the said Central Board and all Local Boards established under the said Ordinance shall from and after the passing of this Ordinance cease to exist.
Pending contracts,	H. PROVIDED always and be it enacted, that all pending con- tracts entered into by or with such Central Board shall and may be carried out and enforced by or against any person appointed for that purpose under this Ordinance by the Governor or Officer administer- ing the Government, with the advice of the Executive Council, as if orignally entered into by and with such person.
how to be carried out.

Property revested in III. AND be it enacted, that all the right of property vested

Her Majesty.

in any manner by the said Ordinance in the said Board, shall revert

to and be revested in Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors.

Powers, &c., of Board IV. AND be it enacted, that all the powers, privileges, rights

to be exercised by	of entry, remedies and interests conferred upon or to be exercised by
Governor or person	the said Board under the said Ordinance, shall be conferred upon
appointed by him.	and exercised by the Governor, or officer administering the Govern- ment of this colony, or by any person duly authorised and appoint-
ed by him, with the advice of the Executive Council, for effecting
any of the objects of the said Ordinance, of whose appointment
notice shall be given in the Government Gazette.

CHARLES FITZGERALD,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Council 1

16th May, 1849.3

THOMAS N. YULE,

Acting Clerk of the Councils.

Printed by authority of the Government, by E. Stirling, Perth.