Government Railways Act Amendment Act 1947 (WA)

No. 72.] Government Railways. [1947.

GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS.

11° and 12° GEO. VI., No. LXXII.

No. 72 of 1947.

AN ACT to amend the Government Railways Act,

1904-1939.

[Assented to 10th January, 1948.]

RE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis-

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

short l title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Government Rail- ways Act Amendment Act, 1947, and shall be read as one with the Government Railways Act, 1904-1939, (Act No. 23 of 1904, as amended by Acts Nos. 29 of 1907, 56 of 1926, 36 of 1933 and 15 of 1939), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Citation of

principal Act	2.	The principal Act as amended by this Act may
as amended

by this Act.	be cited as the Government Railways Act, 1904-1947.
of s. 2.

Amendment 3.

Section two of the principal Act is amended by inserting after the word "cars" in the definition of "Railway," paragraph (2), line two, the words "motor and other vehicles."

1947.] Government Railways. [No. 72.

Section

4. The principal Act is amended by adding after sec- added,

tion twenty-one a section as follows :—

21A. (1) In addition to any other powers con- ?Mir

ferred upon the Commissioner he may, with the Tiva. 101.	Government
consent of the Minister—	Railways Act
1912- 1930,

(a) construct, purchase and otherwise acquire and ;*55.

maintain any motor or other vehicles; and w lac3; s17112Z	1928, No.
3759, 5.114'

(b) subject to the provisions of the State Trans- port Co-ordination Act, 1933-1946, and of the Traffic Act, 1919-1947, use them for the purpose of conveying passengers and goods on any public highway and on land referred to in paragraph (1) of the definition "Rail- way" or "Government railway" in section two of this Act.

(2)

Such of the provisions of this Act and of the by-laws made under this Act as shall be capable of application to any of the matters referred to in the next preceding subsection or any matters inci- dental thereto shall apply mutatis mutandis.

The power conferred upon the Commissioner by this Act to make by-laws for any subject shall, so far as practicable, extend to and include power in the Commissioner to make by-laws for any like subject in regard to any matter referred to in subsection (1) of this section.

(3)