Main Roads Act Amendment Act 1961 (WA)

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MAIN ROADS.

10° Elizabeth II., No.XLVIII.

No. 48 of 1961.

AN ACT to amend the Main Roads Act, 1930-1959.

[Assented to 23rd November, 1961.]

BE 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 Main Roads

Act Amendment Act, 1961.

Vol. 2 of

Reprinted (2) In this Act the Main Roads Act, 1930-1959,

Acts, 1943. is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Main Roads Act, 1930-1961.

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2. Section thirty-four of the principal Act is	8.34
amended.

amended

(a) by repealing subsection (2) and re-enacting it as follows

(2) (a) The Treasurer shall appropri- ate and pay into the Main Roads Contri- bution Trust Account-

(i) the amount of the balance of the moneys remaining in the Central Road Trust Fund referred to in subsection (5) of section eleven A of the Traffic Act, 1919; and

(ii)   the amount of the remaining one-half of the net balance of the moneys referred to in subpara- graph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section four- teen of the Traffic Act, 1919, less any amount deducted there- from under the provisions of the Main Roads Act (Funds Appro- priation) Act, 1955.

(b) Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of this subsection shall be deemed to have come into operation on the same day as that proclaimed for the coming into operation of the Traffic Act Amendment Act (No. 3), 1959, namely, the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and sixty. ;

(b) by repealing subsection (3) and re-enacting it as follows

(3) The Commissioner shall utilise and expend the moneys paid by the Treasurer pursuant to subsection (2) of this section into the Main Roads Contribution Trust Account as follows

(a) as to the moneys referred to in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this

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section, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (5) of section eleven A of the Traffic Act, 1919; and

(b) as to the moneys referred to in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2c) of section fourteen of the Traffic Act, 1919.;

and

by adding after subsection (3) the follow-

ing subsection

(4) The Commissioner may provide, construct, reconstruct, improve, main- tain and supervise all or any of the works and undertakings referred to in para- graphs (a), (b) and (c) of subsection (5) of section eleven A and in subsection (2c) of section fourteen of the Traffic Act, 1919; and may make such payments as are authorised under paragraphs (c) and (d) of the latter subsection.