Fremantle Municipal Tramways Act 1924 (WA)

No. 9.] Fremantle Municipal Tramways. [1924.

FREMANTLE MUNICIPAL TRAMWAYS.

15° GEO. V., No. IX.

No. 9 of 1924.

AN ACT to enable the Fremantle Municipal Tramways and Electric Lighting Board to provide and work Omnibus Services in connection with the Tramways controlled by the Board.

[Assented to 25th November, 1924.]

1:3E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by

and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Council and 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 Fremantle Municipal Tramways Act, 1924.

Power to provide

omnibus services. 2.

(1.) It shall be lawful for the Fremantle Municipal Tramways and Electric Lighting Board (constituted under the Fremantle Municipal Tramways and Electric Lighting Act, 1903, which Act is incorporated herewith) to provide and acquire and to run on any roads, motor omnibuses and other similar vehicles for the carriage of passengers, and such service shall be deemed an authorised undertaking with- in the meaning of the said Act.

(2.) Subject to the provisions of the Traffic Act, 1919, the Board may make by-laws for regulating the use of such motor omnibuses and other vehicles, prescribing the fares for the carriage of passengers, and imposing a penalty not exceeding five pounds for the breach of any by-law.