Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Act Amendment Act 1970 (WA)

No. 32.] Eastern Goldfields Transport [1970.

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EASTERN GOLDFIELDS

TRANSPORT BOARD.

No. 32 of 1970.

AN ACT to amend the Eastern Goldfields Transport

Board Act, 1946-1966.

[Assented to 27th May, 1970.]

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:—

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and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Act Amendment Act, 1970.

In this Act the Eastern Goldfields Transport

Board Act, 1946-1966 is referred to as the principal

Act.

(2)

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Act, 1946-1970.

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2. Section 22 of the principal Act is amended by to s. 22.(Election of

adding after subsection (3) subsections as follows members.) Chairman

(4) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions	and members
continued

of this Act in office.

(a)	the next succeeding election of members of the Board shall be con- ducted under and in accordance with subsection (2) or (3) of this section, during the year nineteen hundred and seventy-one;
(b)	the person holding the office of Chairman of the Board immediately prior to the date of the coming into operation of the Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Act Amendment Act, 1970, shall be deemed to have been appointed to hold that office until and including the thirtieth day of June nineteen hundred and seventy-one, and subject to this Act, he is entitled to hold that office accordingly;
(c)	each person holding the office ofmember of the Board immediately

prior to the date of the coming into operation of the Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Act Amendment Act, 1970 shall be deemed to have been elected to that office until and including the thirtieth day of June nineteen hundred and seventy-one, and subject to this Act, is entitled to hold office accordingly.

(5) The powers of the Board shall not be Vacancy in membership

affected by any vacancy in the membership not to affect Board's

thereof, but if any vacancy occurs in such Powers.

membership before the election of members is

conducted during the year nineteen hundred

and seventy-one, the number required to form

a quorum shall be reduced by the number of

such vacancies, and the number as so reduced

shall constitute a quorum, notwithstanding

that such number does not include one

representative of each local authority or the

ratepayers thereof. .