Local Authorities, British Empire and Commonwealth Games Contributions Authorisation Act 1960 (WA)

1960.] Local Authorities, British Empire [No. 27.

and Commonwealth Games Contributions Authorisation.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES, BRITISH EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH

GAMES CONTRIBUTIONS

AUTHORISATION.

9° Elizabeth II., No. XXVII.

No. 27 of 1960.

AN ACT to authorise Local Authorities to Expend Amounts Exceeding Three per Centum of their Ordinary Revenue for purposes connected with the preliminary arrangements for and the holding of The VII British Empire and Com- monwealth Games in Perth in this State in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two.

[Assented to 21st October, 1960.]

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. This Act may be cited as the Local Authorities, Vila ton.

British Empire and Commonwealth Games Contri-

butions Authorisation Act, 1960.

No. 27.] Local Authorities, British Empire [1960.

and Commonwealth Games Contributions

Authorisation.

Authorisa-

tion of 2. Notwithstanding the provisions

expenditure of ordinary revenue. of section three hundred and thirty-five of the Road Districts Act, 1919, or of section four hundred and eighty of the Municipal Corpora- tions Act, 1906, which provisions limit expendi- ture for certain purposes to a sum not exceeding three per centum of the ordinary revenue mentioned in those sections,

councils of municipalities and boards of road districts are authorised with the approval of the Minister to expend from their ordinary revenue, such sums as they think fit for purposes connected with the preliminary arrangements for and the holding of The VII British Empire and Common- wealth Games in Perth in this State in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two.