Main Roads Act (Funds Appropriation) Act 1944 (WA)

1944.] Main Roads (Funds Appropriation). [No. 6.

MAIN ROADS (FUNDS

APPROPRIATION).

8° Ono. VI., No. VI.

No. 6 of 1944.

AN ACT to authorise the payment of certain moneys to the Consolidated Revenue Fund instead of to the Main Roads Contribution Trust Account and the payment of certain moneys to the Main Roads Contribution Trust Account from the Main Roads Trust Account.

[Assented to 30th 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:—

This Act may be cited as the Main Roads Act (Funds Appropriation) Act, 1944. Short title.

1.

2.    This Act shall be read in conjunction with the Act to be read

Main Roads Act, 1930-1939 (No. 5 of 1930, as reprinted in conjunction with Main

pursuant to the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, in 1Ro	ads	Ac
930-	193t, 9.
Volume 2 of the Reprinted Acts of the Parliament of Western Australia).

deemed to have operated and to have had effect as from operation. 3. This Act shall operate and take effect and shall be Retrospective

and including the first day of July, One thousand nine

hundred and forty-four.

No. 6.] Main Roads (Funds Appropriation). [1944.

Interpreta-

tion. 4. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires

"Federal Aid Roads Agreement" means the Federal Aid Roads Agreement as in force at the com- mencement of this Act under the Federal Aid Roads (New Agreement Authorisation) Act, 1936 (No. 33 of 1936), as amended by the

Federal Aid Roads (New Agreement Authorisa-

tion) Act Amendment Act, 1937 (No. 2 of 1937).

"Main Roads Contribution Trust Account" means

the Main Roads Contribution Trust Account

established under section thirty-four of the prin-

cipal Act.

"Main Roads Trust Account" means the Main Roads Trust Account established under section thirty-one of the principal Act.

"Prescribed years" means the years commencing on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-four, the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-five and the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six, respectively.

"Principal Act" means the Main Roads Act, 1930-

1939.

Payment to

Consolidated5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary con-

Revenue Fund. tabled in section thirty-four or in any other provision of

the principal Act the Treasurer is hereby authorised to pay and shall pay into the Consolidated Revenue Fund instead of into the Main Roads Contribution Trust Account for and in respect of each and every one of the prescribed years, the moneys which for and in respect of the prescribed years respectively he is required under and in accordance with subsection (2) of section thirty- four of the principal Act to appropriate and, but for this section, to pay into the Main Roads Contribution Trust Account.

Payment to

Main Roads	6. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary con-
Contribution

Trust	tained in section thirty-two or in any other provision of
Account.	the principal Act, as and when the Treasurer pays into the Consolidated Revenue Fund the moneys which he is authorised and required so to pay under section five of this Act, the Treasurer is hereby authorised to pay and

1944.] Main Roads (Funds Appropriation). [No. 6. without any warrant of the Commissioner of Main Roads, shall pay into the Main Roads Contribution Trust Account for the purposes of section thirty-four of the principal Act moneys of an amount equal to the amount of the moneys paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund as aforesaid out of that portion of the moneys in the Main Roads Trust Account which consists of moneys received from the Commonwealth of Australia under and in accordance with the provisions of subclause (2) of clause two of the Federal Aid Roads Agreement.

Duration

7. This Act shall continue in operation for such period of Act.

as shall be necessary to enable the payments authorised in sections five and six of this Act to be made in accord- ance with the authority conferred by the said sections but shall not in any event continue in operation after the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.