Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act (No. 3) 1959 (WA)

No. 82.] Municipal Corporations (No. 3). [1959.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS

(No. 3).

8° Elizabeth II., No. LXXXII.

No. 82 of 1959.

AN ACT to amend the Municipal Corporations

Act, 1906-1959.

[Assented to 16th December, 1959.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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 Municipal

Corporations Act Amendment Act (No. 3), 1959.

(2) In this Act the Municipal Corporations Act,

1906-1959, is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Municipal Corporations Act, 1906-1959.

1959.] Municipal Corporations (No. 3). [No. 82.

S. 437A

2. The principal Act is amended by adding after added.

section four hundred and thirty-seven the following

section-

Council

437A. (1) With the consent of the Minister a council may obtain advances from any bank	may borrow on overdraft
for certain

by means of a special overdraft for the purpose

Purposes.

of carrying out any one or more of the following

works:

(a)	The installation of sewerage connec- tions as provided by section eighty-two A of the Health Act, 1911-1959;
(b)	the installation of apparatus for the bacteriolytic treatment of sewage;
(c)	any other work which may be approved by the Governor.

(2) Repayments of principal and interest received from persons on whose behalf such works are carried out shall be paid by the council into the special overdraft account in reduction thereof.

(3) Amounts borrowed on the special over- draft account shall not be taken into considera- tion in determining the maximum amount which a council may otherwise borrow under the provisions of this Act.