Environmental Protection Act Amendment Act 1972 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION

No. 61 of 1972.

AN ACT to amend section twenty-one of the En-

vironmental Protection Act, 1971.

[Assented to 31st October, 19721

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:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Environ- ggrgatti,e.

mental Protection Act Amendment Act, 1972.

(2) In this Act the Environmental Protection Act,

1971 is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Environmental Protection Act, 1971-1972.

No. 61.] Environmental Protection. [1972.

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amended. 2. Section 21 of the principal Act is amended by adding after subsection (2) the following sub- section

(3) If at any time a Council member ceases to hold office before the expiration of the period of his appointment, the person who was at that time the deputy of that member is, until the office of member is filled by the appointment of another member or until the expiration of three months from the date the Council member ceased to hold office, whichever is the lesser time, entitled to attend any meeting of the Council and, when so attending, has all the powers, functions and duties of a Council member. .