Government Electric Works Act Amendment Act 1915 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

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ANNO SENTO

GEORGII QUINTI REGIS ,

IX.

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No. 42 of 1915.

AN ACT to amend the Government Electric

Works Act, 1914.

[Assented to 14th October, 1915.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia-	BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.     This Act may be cited as the Government Electric Works Act Short title.

Amendment Act, 1915, and shall be read as one with the Govern- ment Electric Works Act, 1914, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2. Section four of the principal Act is hereby amended by AmePdment of Section 4.

inserting the word " executed " in place of the word " exercised "in

subsection two.

3.     Section five of the principal Act is hereby amended by Amendment of

omitting the words " but subject to the consent of the local suction

authority having control in any such area," and by adding a

proviso thereto as follows:-

" Provided also that the Commissioner shall not sell or supply electricity within the district of a local authority, otherwise than to a Government department or agency (State or Commonwealth), Without the consent of such local authority, if such local authority has established electric works within its district prior to the establishment or construction by the Commissioner of electric works within the same district."

1915, No. 42."1 Government Electric Works. [6 GEO. V.

Amendment of 4.

Section seven of the principal Act is amended by adding " If an agreement is not arrived at between the Commissioner and the local authority upon any of the following matters ; namely, the placing of electric lines over, under, or through any land, or the route to be traversed by any electric line through or across any thoroughfare or other public place, or the plans of buildings to be constructed 'within the district of such local authority, any such matter in difference shall be referred by the Commissioner to the Minister as sole arbitrator, and the decision of such Minister shall be binding on the parties and final."

Section '7. to subsection two thereof a paragraph, as follows:-

The following proviso is hereby added to subsection two of "Provided that when any owner of any unoccupied land or premises is not within Western Australia, then any notice under this subsection shall be deemed to have been well and sufficiently given to him if it has been affixed or displayed on or over a con- spicuous part of such land or premises and left so affixed or dis- played for at least three days."

Amendment of 5.

Section 7. section seven of the principal Act:

Amendment of 6. Section twenty of the principal Act is hereby amended by

Section 20.

inserting the words " constructed or maintained under this Act,"

after the word "line."

Effect of amend-

The amendments contained in sections two, four, and five of

this Act shall have effect as from the commencement of the

principal Act.

ments. 7.

By Authority: FRED. Wm. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.