Government Railways Act Amendment Act 1972 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRAIIA

GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS.

No. 72 of 1972.

AN ACT to amend sections twenty-four and fifty-two of the Government Railways Act, 1904-1971.

[Assented to 16th November, 1972.]

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:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Government a'ãirgIttlieon

Railways Act Amendment Act, 1972.

(2) In this Act the Government Railways Act, 1417notfere

1904-1971 is referred to as the principal Act.	Approved oved for
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(3) The principal Act as amended ' by this Act la' lacrf 1/9t6t?) „

may be cited as the Government Railways Act, 2ATtestric?.d

27 of 1963,

19044972. 54 44 of 1967. of 1965,

end	61 of 1970.
21 of 1971.

No. 72.] Government Railways. [1972.

Amendment

to s. 24.	2. Section 24 of the principal Act is amended
(Provisions
as to

by-laws.)	(a) by deleting paragraph (3); and
(b) by deleting the words "and exhibited", in line three of paragraph (4).
Amendment

to s. 52.	3. Section 52 of the principal Act is amended
(Railway
servants

responsible	(a)	by adding after the section number "52."
for
damage.)	the subsection designation "(1)";
(b)	by substituting for the passage "way:" in line six, the passage "way.";
(c)	by repealing the proviso to the section; and .
(d)	by adding subsections as follows

(2) Before any loss is deducted, or commenced to be deducted, pursuant to subsection (1) of this section from any salary, wages or emolument due to a person who is a permanent employee within the meaning of section seventy- seven of this Act, that person shall be given notice in writing containing particulars of the damage which is alleged to have been caused by his wrongdoing or neglect and of the loss which is to be so deducted.

(3) A person who receives a notice pursuant to subsection (2) of this section may appeal to the Appeal Board against the deduction of the loss referred to in that notice and any such appeal may be made in the same manner as if it were an appeal made under the provisions of section seventy-seven of this Act, and for the purposes of section eighty of this Act the date on which the person received that notice shall be deemed to be the date of the decision appealed against. .