Local Authorities (Reserve Funds) Act Amendment Act 1944 (WA)

No. 3.] Local Authorities (Reserve Funds). [1944.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES (RESERVE

FUNDS).

8° GEO. VI., No. III.

No. 3 of 1944.

AN ACT to amend sections three, seven and eight of

the Local Authorities (Reserve Funds) Aet, 1942.

[Assented to 12th October, 1944.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Local Authorities (Reserve Funds) Act Amendment Act, 1944, and shall be read as one with the Local Authorities (Reserve Funds) Act, 1942 (No. 26 of 1942), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Amendment	2. Section three of the principal Act is amended as
of S.

follows :-

(a) by deleting the definition of "Local Authority" and inserting in lieu thereof a definition as follows

"Local Authority" includes

(a) A municipal council as constituted

for the purposes of the Municipal Cor-

porations Act, 1906-1943;

(b) A road board as constituted for the purposes of the Road Districts Act, 1919-1943; and

(c) A municipal council or a road board or a local board of health when operating as the local authority for a health district under and for the pur- poses of the Health Act, 1911-1942.

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(b) by deleting the definition of "Minister" and in- serting in lieu thereof a definition as fol- lows ;—

"Minister" means in relation to a par- ticular local authority the Minister of the Crown for the time being and from time to time charged with the administration of the local government Act of such local authority.

(c) by adding at the end of the definition of "The Local Government Act" the words "and when used in relation to a municipal council or a road board or a local board of health when operating as the local authority for a health district under and for the purposes of the Health Act, 1911-1942, means such last men-.. tioned Act."

3. Section seven of the principal Act is amended by Amendment of s. 7.

adding thereto a proviso as follows:—

Provided that the Governor may by writing under his hand delegate to the Minister authority on behalf of the Governor to exercise the power conferred by this section, and whilst such delegated authority re- mains unrevoked by the Governor, the said power shall be exercisable by the Minister, in lieu of the Governor, accordingly.

4. Section eight of the principal Act is , amended as Amendment of s. 8.

follows

(a)	by inserting in paragraph (a) after the word "Governor" in line 5 of paragraph (a) the words "or the Minister."
(b)	by inserting in paragraph (a) after the word "Minister" in line seven of paragraph (a) the words "when the amount aforesaid has been specified by the Governor, or unless the Minister, when the amount aforesaid has been specified by the Minister."

5. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be Citntion of

cited as the Local Authorities (Reserve Funds) Act, as

1942-1944.