Government Railways Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1958 (WA)

No. 38.] Government Railways (No. 2). [1958.

GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

(No. 2).

7° Elizabeth II., No. XXXVIII.

No. 38 of 1958.

AN ACT to amend the Government Railways Act,

1904-1958.

[Assented to 11th December, 1958.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, 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 Government

Railways Act Amendment Act (No. 2), 1958.

Reprinted as

approved for	(2) In this Act the Government Railways Act,
reprint

26/10/53 in 1904-1958, is referred to as the principal Act.

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Reprinted

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

may be cited as the Government Railways Act,

1904-1958.

1958.] Government Railways (No. 2). [No. 38.

Commence-

2. This Act shall come into operation on a day ment.

to be fixed by proclamation.

S.77

Section seventy-seven of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "provided" in line twelve, the passage, "except where the person is the occupant of an office prescribed under section seventy-three of this Act as one in respect of which the exercise of any of the powers referred to in that section is subject to the Minister, in which case the person shall not have a right of appeal to an Appeal Board so constituted, but the person may in manner prescribed by the regulations appeal to a Stipendiary Magistrate". amended.

3.

4. Section eighty-four of the principal Act is T •-P1 .—.nded.

amended by adding the following paragraph

(4) Prescribing the manner in which appeals may be brought under section seventy- seven of this Act to a Stipendiary Magistrate; prescribing the procedure and conduct of such appeals, including the taking of evidence at a distance and the power and authority of Stipendiary Magis- trates hearing such appeals; prescribing the allowances to witnesses for their expenses; and incorporating in regulations made under this paragraph such of the provisions of sections eighty, eighty-two, and eighty-three of this Act, with such adaptations, as are considered necessary or desirable.