Marine Navigational Aids Act Amendment Act 1978 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

MARINE

NAVIGATIONAL AIDS.

No. 83 of 1978.

AN ACT to amend the Marine Navigational Aids Act,

1973-1977.

[Assented to 27th October, 1978.]

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:—

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1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Marine title and

Navigational Aids Act Amendment Act, 1978. citation.

(2) In this Act the Marine Navigational Aids Act,

1973-1977, is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Marine Navigational Aids Act, 1973-

No. 83.] Marine Navigational Aids. [1978.

Commence-	2.	The provisions of this Act shall come into
ment.

operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation.

Section 3A

added. 3. The principal Act is amended by inserting,

after section 3, the following section-

Fees

payable in	3A. (1) Subject to subsection (2) of this in respect of every fishing boat fees at such rates as are prescribed in respect of the provision of marine navigational aids outside any port under the control of a Port Authority and the approaches to that port.
respect
of fishing	section, there are payable to the Department
boats.

Regulations prescribing fees payable under subsection (1) of this section may provide that fishing boats of a specified class, or of specified classes, are exempt from the payment of those fees.

(2)

(3) In this section

"fishing boat" means a vessel licensed, or required to be licensed, by or under the Fisheries Act, 1905, the Pearling Act, 1912, or the Whaling Act, 1937. .