Coal Miners' Welfare Amendment Act 1986 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

COAL MINERS' WELFARE

AMENDMENT ACT

No. 76 of 1986

AN ACT to amend the Coal Miners' Welfare Act 1947.

[Assented to 4 December 1986]

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 Coal Miners' Welfare Amendment

Act 1986.

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Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on such day as is fixed by

proclamation.

Principal Act

3. In this Act, the Coal Miners' Welfare Act 1947* is referred to as

the principal Act.

[*Reprinted as approved 7 April 1971 and amended by Acts Nos. 94 of

1972 and 98 of 1985.]

Section 2 repealed

4. Section 2 of the principal Act is repealed.

Section 4 amended

5. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended

(a) by deleting the semicolon at the end of the definition of "Fund" and substituting a full stop; and

(b) by deleting the definitions of "Minister" and "regulations".

Section 6 amended

6. Section 6 of the principal Act is amended

(a) in subsection (1) by deleting "1.2303 cents" and substituting the following-

" the prescribed amount "; and

(b) by deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection -

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(2) The sums to be paid under subsection (1) are in

addition to any royalties that are to be paid under the

Mining Act 1978. ".

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Section 7 amended

7.    Section 7 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (2) by

deleting "as by the preceding section prescribed" and substituting the

following-

" required under section 6 ".

Section 15 amended

8.     Section 15 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection

(2) and substituting the following subsection -

Li (2) Persons appointed by the Board under subsection (1), or

otherwise employed or engaged by the Board shall hold office or continue in employment during the pleasure of the Board and the Public Service Act 1978 and Division 4 of Part IIA of the Industrial Relations Act 1979 shall not apply to those persons. ".