Education Amendment Act 1986 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

EDUCATION AMENDMENT ACT

No. 63 of 1986

AN ACT to amend the Education Act 1928.

[Assented to 28 November 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 Education Amendment Act 1986.

Principal Act

2.     In this Act the Education Act 1928* is referred to as the principal

Act.

[*Reprinted as approved 19 July 1984 and amended by Acts Nos. 94,

118 and 121 of 1984 and 98 of 1985.]

No. 63]	Education Amendment Act	[1986
Section 6A inserted

3. After section 6 of the principal Act the following section is

inserted

Minister may grant licences

"

6A. (1) The Minister may enter into arrangements with a municipality constituted under the Local Government Act 1960 to enable and provide for the management and control of the community use for educational or recreational purposes of land and facilities vested in the Minister.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Minister may grant a licence to a municipality for the use of land and facilities vested in the Minister upon such terms and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the licence.

(3) A licence for the use of land and facilities granted under this section

(a)	may provide for the establishment, composition, powers and duties of a management committee to manage and control the use of the land and facilities in accordance with the licence;
(b)	may provide for a payment to be made to the Minister by the municipality by way of contribution towards the costs incurred in the provision of the facilities; and
(c)	may provide for the appointment and remuneration of staff with respect to the use of the land and facilities. ".

Validation

4. Every arrangement entered into and licence granted before the commencement of this Act that would have been lawful if section 6A of the principal Act had been in force at the time the arrangement was entered into or the licence was granted and every act or thing done by or on behalf of the Minister under such an arrangement or licence is hereby validated.