Electoral Distribution (Rottnest Island) Amendment Act 1987 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ELECTORAL DISTRIBUTION

(ROTTNEST ISLAND) AMENDMENT

ACT

No. 76 of 1987

AN ACT to amend section 1A of the Electoral Distribution Act

1947.

[Assented to 26 November 1987]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Electoral Distribution (Rottnest

Island) Amendment Act 1987.

No. 76] Electoral Distribution (Rottnest Island) Amendment [1987

Act

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives

the Royal Assent.

Section lA amended

5 3. Section 1A of the Electoral Distribution Act 1947* is amended by deleting the definition of "Metropolitan Area" and inserting the following definition

"Metropolitan Area" means the part of the State that comprises-

10 (a) the region that was, as at 1 January 1987, described in the Third Schedule to the Metropolitan Region Town Planning Scheme Act 1959; and

(b) Rottnest Island. ".

(*Reprinted as approved 14 July 1977 and amended by Acts Nos. 13 of

15 1981, 62 of 1985 and 40 of 1987.]