Fremantle Municipal Transport Board (Postponement of 1960 Elections) Act 1960 (WA)

1960.] Fremantle Municipal Transport [No. 53.

Board (Postponement of

1960 Elections).

FREMANTLE MUNICIPAL

TRANSPORT BOARD (POSTPONEMENT OF

1960 ELECTIONS).

9° Elizabeth II., No. LIII.

No. 53 of 1960.

AN ACT to provide for the postponement until the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one of the election of members of the Fremantle Municipal Transport Board required to be held in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty, and for other and incidental purposes.

[Assented to 28th November, 1960.I

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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 Fremantle and citation

Municipal Transport Board (Postponement of 1960

Elections) Act, 1960.

No. 53.] Fremantle Municipal Transport [1960.

Board (Postponement of

1960 Elections).

Interpre-

tation. 2. In this Act

"Board" means the Fremantle Municipal

Transport Board constituted under the Act;

"the Act" means the Fremantle Municipal

Tramways and Electric Lighting Act, 1903.

Postpone-

Notwithstanding the provisions of the Act, place of retiring members which election is required under the provisions of section thirty-seven of the Act to be held on the fourth Saturday in November in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty shall not be held on that day but shall be postponed until the fourth Saturday in November in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one.

ment of 3.

election of

members	the election of members of the Board to take the
of the Board
Elected

members 4.

The four members of the Board elected at the election held under the Act in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-six of the Act, continue to hold office as members of the Board for a period of one year after the date when under that section their term of office would but for this section have expired.

to continue

in office.

Rights and

duties of	5.	During the extended term for which they hold
Members of

the Board	office as members of the Board pursuant to the
during
extended	provisions of section four of this Act, the chairman
term.	and each of the other members of the Board shall be entitled to the same remuneration to which they are respectively entitled under the provisions of section thirty-nine of the Act, and shall also, during that extended term, be entitled to the same rights and privileges, and be subject to the same duties and obligations, as those to which they were entitled and subject during the term for which they were elected.