Industrial Lands Development Authority Act Amendment Act 1972 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

INDUSTRIAL LANDS

DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.

No. 70 of 1972.

AN ACT to amend the Industrial Lands

Development Authority Act, 1966-1971.

[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 Industrial	Short title
and citation.

Lands Development Authority Act Amendment Act,

1972.

(2) In this Act the Industrial Lands Development 19ctNo. 60 of

Authority Act, 1966-1971, is referred to as the amended by	Acts Nos. 32
principal Act.	or /968, 17
of 1970 and

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act 54°11971

may be cited as the Industrial Lands Development

Authority Act, 1966-1972.

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Commence-

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

to be fixed by proclamation.

Amendment

to section 6.	3. Section 6 of the principal Act is amended
(Constitu-
tion of

Development (a) by repealing and re-enacting subsection (1)

Authority.)	as follows
Vide s. 33

Act No. 30 of	(1) The Development Authority shall consist of five persons of whom one shall be
1918.

(a)	the Town Planning Commis- sioner appointed under the Town Planning and Develop- ment Act, 1928;
(b)	the Under Secretary for Lands in the Department of Lands and Surveys;
(c)	the Executive Officer (Indus- tries) in the Department of Development and Decentralisa- tion appointed under the Public Service Act, 1904 or if the name of that office is, from time to time, changed or that office is abolished, such person holding such office as the Governor determines;
(d)	a person who is the secretary to, and executive officer of, the Development Authority; and
(e)	a person employed in the Treasury Department of the State appointed by the Treasurer for such period not exceeding three years as the Treasurer determines at the time the person is so appointed. ;

(b) by substituting for the passage "persons mentioned in paragraph, (a), (b) or (c) of" in lines one and two of subsection (2) the words "five persons mentioned in"; and

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(c) by adding after subsection (3) subsections

as follows—

Meetings of

(4) The Development Authority shall the DeveloP- ment

hold its meetings at such times and places Authority. meeting of the Development Authority.

as it determines but the Minister or the

(5) At any meeting of the Development

Authority

(a)	the Chairman thereof, if present, shall preside thereat and if the Chairman is not present the members of the Development Authority who are present shall select one of their number to be the Chairman for the purposes of that meeting;
(b)	three members of the Develop- ment Authority constitute a quorum;
(c)	each member of the Development Authority may cast a deliberative vote on any question;
(d)	any question shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present at the meeting but a question shall not be decided unless at least three members vote thereon.

(6) Subject to paragraph (b) of sub- section (5) of this section, the perform- ance or exercise of the functions, powers, rights, authorities, duties or obligations of the Development Authority shall not be affected by reason only of there being a vacancy in the office of a member of the Development Authority.

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(7) When a member referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (1) of this section is not able or available to attend a meeting of the Development Authority that member may appoint in writing a fit and proper person as deputy to attend that meeting and act in the place of the member; and the person while so acting may perform or exercise any function, power, right, authority, duty or obligation which the member for whom he is the deputy, if he attended the meeting, could perform or exercise. .

Section 7

repealed.	4. Section 7 of the principal Act is repealed.
(Meetings of Development Authority.).