Metropolitan Water Works Amendment Act 1902 (WA)

al totem Cauotralta.

ANNO PRIMO ET SECUNDO

EDWARD' VII. REGIS.

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No. XXVII.

AN ACT to provide for the Extension of the Metropolitan Waterworks, and to amend the Law relating to the same.

[Assented to, 19th February, 1902.]

and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council Preamble.

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1.     THIS Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Waterworks

all Acts amending the same.

Amendment Act, 1902, and shall be read with the Metropolitan Short title.

hundred and twenty thousand pounds instead of Four hundred Increase of capital. 2. THE Board may issue debentures to the extent of FMur

thousand pounds as provided by section two of the Metropolitan Waterworks Act, 1896, Amendment Act, 1898, and the words " Four

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hundred," in the first and second and the sixth lines of such section, are hereby struck out, and thei words " Four hundred and twenty" inserted in lieu thereof.

3.     SECTION fifteen of the Metropolitan Waterworks Act,

Repeal of section

15, Metropolitan	1896, is hereby repealed, and the principal Act and Acts amending the
Waterworks Act,	same shall be read and construed as though the said section had
1896.	never been enacted. The following shall be substituted in lieu of the repealed section :-

The rates, charges for water, and other sums received by the Board by virtue of this Act shall be apportioned in the first place to the management and maintenance of the said Metropolitan Waterworks; in the next place to paying the interest half-yearly at the rate of four per centum per annum on the debentures outstanding., and in the next place to the redemption of debentures at the rate of one per centum per annum on all debentures out- standing, except such as have been issued less than one year, and in the next place to the improvement of the said works. The first payment on account of the redemption of deben- tures shall be made on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, and thenceforward half-yearly until the redemption of all the debentures raised under this Act.

Board may burn 4. THE Board, or its servants or agents, may burn the body of

bodies of dead

any dead animals found within the catchment area, whether upon

animals on

catchment area.

private land or otherwise.

Destruction of dead

bodies.

5.     THE Secretary to the Board shall be entitled to appear

Secretary may

appear in Court.

personally in all suits, prosecutions, and legal proceedings to which

the Board is a party in any Local Court or Police Court.

6.     NO portion of the moneys raised under the powers conferred

by this Act shall be expended by the Board without the approval of

the Governor.

In the name and on behalf of the King I hereby assent

to this Act.

ARTHUR LAWLEY, Governor.

By Authority : ALFRED WATSON, Government Printer, Perth.