Municipal Councils Titles Act 1885 (WA)

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ANNO QUADRAGESIMO NONO

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No. XIV.

AN ACT to make provision for changing the

style of the Municipal Councils of Albany and

Geraldton and of other Towns in the Colony.

[ Assented to, 18th September, 1885.]

FIEREAS it is expedient to change the style of the

Municipal Councils of Albany and Geraldton, and to make

provision for the change in the future of the style of other Councils

instituted under the Municipal Institutions Acts, 1871 or 1876, or

of any Act amending the same: Be it therefore enacted by His

Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Depen-

dencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Council thereof, as follows :—

1: FROM and after the passing of this Act, the name, style, and title of the Corporations of the Towns of Albany and Geraldton,

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Municipal Councils

constituted under and by virtue of " The Municipal Institutions Act,

of Albany and Ger-

1871," shall be " The Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Town

aldton.

of Albany," and " The Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the

Town of Geraldton ; " and under such names, styles, and titles they

shall have all and the like rights, liabilities, privileges, and immunities

as have been heretofore possessed by them under the styles and titles

of "The Council and Burgesses of the Town of Albany," and "The

Council and Burgesses of the Town of Geraldton." The present

Chairmen of the Councils of the Municipalities of Albany and

Chairmen to be

Mayors.

Geraldton shall be the first Mayors of the said Towns, and shall continue in office up to the thirtieth November next.

49° VICTORI1E, No. 14.

The :Municipal Councils Titles Act, 1885.

2. WHENEVER in any Act, Law, or Statute, or other public

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read as if Mayor ument or notice, or in any proceedings of what kind or nature

were inserted in lieu soever, the words " the Council and Burgesses of the Town of of Chairman. Albany " or " the Council and Burgesses of the Town of Geraldton"

or " the Chairman of the Council of the Municipality of Albany " oz "the Chairman of the Council of the Municipality of Geraldton," have been or are referred to or mentioned, such reference or mention shall be taken to signify and mean respectively " the Mayor, Councilors, and Burgesses of the Town of Albany," or " the Mayor, Councilors, and Burgesses of the Town of Geraldton," or the Mayor of Albany or the Mayor of Geraldton, as the case may be.

3.     IT shall be lawful for the Governor in Executive Council,

Power to Governor upon application by the Council of any Municipality constitutedin Council to change

the style of ntuni- under and by virtue of " The Municipal Institutions Act, 1871," or

Mood Councils and 1876, or of any Act amending the same, to change the name, style, andChairmen.

title of such Council, by notice published in the Government Gazette,

to such name, style, and title as to the Governor in Council may seem fit, and to change the name and style of the Chairman of such Council to the name and style of Mayor of such Municipality ; and from and after the publication of such notice such Council shall continue to have all and the like rights, privileges, liabilities, and

immunities as it had previously to such change, and the Mayor

of such Municipality shall continue to have all the rights, privileges, liabilities, and immunities as such Chairman had previously to such change ; and the provisions of section 2 of this Act shall apply to such Council . and to the Mayor thereof.

A COPY of the Government Gazette, purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, containing any such notice as aforesaid, shall-be received in all places and at all times as evidence of the facts mentioned in such notice.

4.

Government Gazette

to be evidence.

5.     THIS Act shall be read together with the Municipal

Incorporation with

Municipal Institu-	Institutions Acts, 1871 and 1876, and the Acts amending the same,
tions Acts.	and shall be taken to form part thereof.

Short Title, and com- 6. THIS Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Municipal

mencement of Let.

Councils Titles Act, 1885," and shall come into force on the first

day of October, 1885.

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

to this Act.

F. NAPIER BROOME, Governor.

By Authority: RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.