Main Roads Act (Funds Appropriation) Act 1947 (WA)

No. 19.] Main Roads (Funds Appropriation). [1947.

MAIN ROADS

(FUNDS APPROPRIATION.)

11' Gno. VI., No. XIX.

No. 19 of 1947.

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 5th November, 1947.]

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 Main Roads Act

(Funds Appropriation) Act, 1947.

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

Roads Act,	Roads Act, 1930-1939 (No. 5 of 1930, as reprinted pur-
1930-1939.	suant to the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, in Volume 2 of the Reprinted Acts of the Parliament of Western Australia).
Retrospective

This Act shall operate and take effect and shall be deemed to have operated and to have had effect as from and including the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.

operation. 3.

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4.	In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-	Interpre-
tation.

" Commonwealth Act" means the Commonwealth Aid Roads and Works Act, 1947 (No. 17 of 1947 Commonwealth) ;

"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-seven, the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, and the first day of July, one, thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, respectively;

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

1939.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary con- tained in section thirty-four or in any other provision	Payment to
Consolidated
Revenue
Fund.
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.

5.

6. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary con- r and iocatos

tabled in section thirty-two or in any other provision Contribution	Trust	Accont.
of 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 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

No. 19.] Main Roads (Funds Appropriation). [1947.

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 the Com- monwealth Act.

Duration

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

period as shall be necessary to enable the payments authorised in sections five and six of this Act to be made in accordance 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 fifty.