Jetties Regulation Act 1878 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANN() QUADIIAGESIMO SEGUNDO

-VICTOR= REGIME

No. 18

An Act to empower the Governor in Council to make regulations for the use and management of Jetties and other similar works, and to make other provision

respecting the same. [Assented to 16th July, 1878.

Preamble

HEREAS by an Act passed during the present session of the

Wreign of Her present Majesty and numbered fifteen, has been repealed,Legislative Council, an Ordinance passed in the 19th year of the

and it is expedient to continue to the Governor in Executive Council certain powers as to making regulations for the use and management of all public bridges, jetties, piers, wharfs, and landing places, which were vested in him by the said Ordinance and also to make provision for the proper maintenance of the same and other public works : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council thereof, as follows :-

Short title 1. This Act may be cited as The Jetties Regulation Act, 1878.'

Regulations	2. Any regulations heretofore made and promulgated by the repealed Ordinance, shall have the same force and effect as regulations made and published pursuant to the provisions of this Act, and every person acting in opposition to, in violation of, or at variance with any such regulations shall be proceeded against and punished as if the said regulations had been made and published pursuant to and in virtue of the provisions of this Act.
made under
19 Vie., No. 15,	Governor in Executive Council pursuant to section sixteen of the said
in force
s. 15, continued
The Governor in

Executive Goon- 3. The Governor in Executive Council may frame and from time

oil may frame	to time alter and amend general or special regulations for the manage-
regulations for
the management	ment and use of all public bridges, jetties, piers, wharfs, landing places,
of bridges,	and buoys, and particularly providing for the manner and time of
jetties, &e.	mooring and fastening and loading and unloading boats and vessels at any jetty, pier, or wharf, or landing place ; and a copy of all such regulations as aforesaid shall be published in the' Government Gazette,' and from and after such publication and until the publication in like

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manner of any new, altered, or amended regulations as aforesaid, shall have the force and effect of law, and have the same force as if they had been originally embodied in this Act ; and every person who shall act in opposition to, or violation of, or at variance with the said regu- lations or any part thereof respectively, shall upon conviction of such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Twenty pounds. Pro- Persons violating

vided always that if at any time any municipal council shall duly make rtual%sg- and publish by-laws relative to the use and management of any public of twenty pounds bridge, jetty, pier, wharf, or landing place that has been handed over

,to their care and management, any regulations made under the said repealed Ordinance or under this section shall cease to apply to such bridge, jetty, pier, wharf, or landing place.

4. No person shall under any pretext whatever, light, place, or No person to

keep a fire upon, or so near as to endanger any jetty, pier, wharf, bridge, /23,11113,,rern

or other work of the like nature, being public property, constructed being public

wholly or in part of wood ; and every person so offending shall, upon "MY

conviction of every such offence, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding

Ten pounds.

5. Any person who shall make fast any vessel, boat, raft, timber, Ain , yorain

or other article, to any buoy (not being a warping buoy), beacon, 1 !, , "„ket,g&ff ., ttrY

river or sea mark, fender or other piling, shall, upon conviction of n.butro. any such offence, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Twenty ilinny OL4

Pounds. twenty pounds

6. Sections A, B, F, and J of the Shortening Ordinance, 1853, Incorporation

shall be deemed to be incorporated with and to form part of this Act. Org="I'

H. ST. GEORGE ORD,

GOVERNOR.