Fremantle Port Authority Act Amendment Act 1969 (WA)

No. 80.] Fremantle Port Authority. [1969.

FREMANTLE PORT

AUTHORITY.

No. 80 of 1969.

AN ACT to amend the Fremantle Port Authority

Act, 1902-1965.

[Assented to 7th November, 1969.]

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

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Fremantle

Port Authority Act Amendment Act, 1969.

vol. 16

Reprinted	(2) In this Act the Fremantle Port Authority
Acts,

approved for	Act, 1902-1965, is referred to as the principal Act.
reprint 19th
June, 1962,
and

amended by	(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act
Acts Nos. 35

of 1964 and	may be cited as the Fremantle Port Authority Act,
113 of 1965.	1902-1969.

1969.] Fremantle Port Authority. [No. 80.

2. Section 27 of the principal Act is repealed and repealed and

re-enacted as follows—	re-enacted.
Power of

27. (1) The Port Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, grant leases of any	Port Authority to	lease certain
of the lands vested in it by or under this Act,	lands.
as yards or sites for shipbuilding, boat building, storage of timber, coal, merchandise or other property, or for the erection of work- shops or foundries or for any other purpose approved by the Minister.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, every lease granted pursuant to this section

(a)	shall be granted on such terms and conditions as the Port Authority thinks fit; and
(b)	shall not be granted for a longer term than twenty-one years.

(3) When the Minister is of opinion that because of the special circumstances of the case the granting of a lease for a term exceeding twenty-one years is justified, the Minister may, by instrument in writing under his hand and containing such conditions, if any, as he thinks fit, authorize the Port Authority to grant the lease for such term exceeding twenty-one years but not exceeding fifty years as the Minister specifies in the instrument.

(4) No lease for a term exceeding three years shall be granted under this section unless applications therefor have first been adver- tised twice in the Government Gazette and twice in a daily newspaper circulating generally in the State. .