Coal Mines Regulation Act Amendment Act 1965 (WA)

No. 14.] Coal Mines Regulation. [1965.

COAL MINES REGULATION.

No. 14 of 1965.

AN ACT to amend the Coal Mines Regulation

Act, 1946-1962.

[Assented to 1st October, 1965.]

RE 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

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

Regulation Act Amendment Act, 1965.

Vol. 17

Reprinted	(2) In this Act the Coal Mines Regulation Act,
Acts

approved

1946-1962, is referred to as the principal Act.

for reprint

17th August,

1961, as

amended by

Act No. 21

of 1962.

1965.] Coal Mines Regulation. [No. 14.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1946-1965.

2.    This Act shall come into operation on a date Zogt2,ence-

to be fixed by proclamation.

3.    Section thirty-eight of the principal Act is =ndecl.

amended by adding a subsection as follows

(10) The obligation to contribute to and the right to receive the benefits of the Coal Mines Accident Relief Fund, imposed and conferred by this section, extends to persons who are employed solely in cutting timber for use in or about a coal mine, whether as contractors to the owner thereof or as persons employed by such a contractor. .