Municipal Institutions Act Amendment Act 1892 (WA)

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No. XVI.

AN ACT to amend "The Municipal Institutions

Act, 1876."

[Assented to, it gth March, 1592.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in fins present Parlia-	BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and
ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Preamble.

with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

1. T1118 Act may be cited as " The Municipal Institutions Act Short Title.

Amendment Act, 1892."

2.

IN this Act-

" Governor " means the Officer for the time being adminis-

tering the Government of Western Australia, acting Interpretation.

with the advice of the Executive Council;

" Gazetted" means published in the Government Gazette of

Western Australia.

3. OD IT shall not be lawful to levy any rate whatever on any p roperty 01,011A from rates.

lands or buildings—

(a.) Belonging to the Crown and not used or occupied for

purposes other than public purposes;

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(b.) Belonging to any public body created by statute, and not used or occupied for purposes other than the purposes of such public body ;

(c.) Belonging to any religious body and used or occupied as

a place of residence of a minister of religion ;

(d.) Belonging to any religious body and used or occupied as a convent, mummy, or monastery, or by a religious brotherhood or sisterhood ;

(e.) Belonging to any religious body and used exclusively as

a place of public worship or Sunday school ;

(1.) Used exclusively as a hospital, benevolent asylum, orphanage, public school, private school being the property of a religious body, public library, public museum, or mechanics' institute ;

(g.) Used or occupied exclusively for charitable purposes;

(2.) Nor on any lands permanently appropriated and used for purposes of public recreation or military training.

(3.) Nor on any lands or buildings hereinbefore mentioned, not used or occupied otherwise than for one or more of the afore- said purposes.

Provided always, that no buildings otherwise exempted from being rated under this section shall be liable to be rated by reason of being used for the purposes of any bazaar, or as a place of meeting for any religious, charitable, temperance, or benevolent object.

Rate Beek for 1892 Municipality may have been already made up and completed for the 4. NOTWITHSTANDING that the "Rate Book" of any

nclude any include

property exempt-	exempt- year One thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, the Council may
ed by this Ac.

include therein any lands and buildings heretofore exempted from being rated, but not exempted under the next preceding section, and may make up and complete the said book in respect of such lands and buildings, in like manner as the Council are empowered to do in respect of any other rateable property ; and all the provisions of " The Municipal Institutions Act, 1876 " (hereinafter called the " Principal Act "), and of any Act amending the same shall apply to all such lands and buildings so included in the Rate Book as if the same had been originally included therein under the provisions of the Principal Act.

5.

THE Governor may from time to time, on the petition of the Municipality, or of any ward or wards therein, and from time to

boundaries of wards. Governor may alter Council by proclamation to be gazetted, alter the boundaries of any

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time on petition as aforesaid create a new ward or wards in any

Municipality.

6.

FOR the purposes of section eight of the Principal Act, the Governor may, by proclamation to be gazetted, declare the number Governor attini

of the population of any Municipality as well when first proclaimed porn	A anon any	in
as at any subsequent period, and the number of the members of the Council shall not be increased without such declaration.

7.

IN the event of the number of the members of the Council of any Municipality becoming liable to increase under the provisions

In case of Council

liable to increase

of section eight of the Principal Act and of this Act, an election of

election of three

Councillors to take

three Councillors shall forthwith be held, and thereupon the same

place forthwith.

proceedings shall take place, as nearly as may be, as at an annual general election of Councillors. One of such three Councillors shall

when such COM,-

go out of office on the 30th day of November following their

&Hors to go out of

election, another on the 30th day of November succeeding, and the

office.

other on the 30th day of November after that.

8.

THE Council of a Municipality shall at all times consist of an equal number of members for each ward, and the number of wards in etorbsetUfeacNi",-;:ard

a Municipality shall not exceed one-third of the members of the and number of wardsin each Municipality.

Council.

9.

SECTION ninety-one of the Principal Act relating to the publication of a list of defaulters shall have efFect as if there were sA in9ei ft t o fo /the

ub

s stituted therein for the words " in the first number of the Principal Act.

" Government Gazette or in two of the local newspapers issued next " after the first day of January and July, respectively," the words

" in the Government Gazette or in two of the local newspapers issued

" during the months of January and July, respectively."

IN Schedule G to the Principal Act, the words "for the term of twelve months " shall be read " for the term of eighteen	Amendment on
Schedule G to the
months."	Principal Act.

10.

11.     SECTION ninety-five of the Principal Act is hereby re-

pealed. Repeal.

THIS Act shall be incorporated and read with the Principal Act, and Acts amending the same. Incorporation.

12.

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

to this Act.

ALEX. C. ONSLOW, Administrator.

By Authority : RICHARD PE • HER, Government Printer, Perth.