Noxious Weeds Act Amendment Act 1957 (WA)

No. 48.] Noxious Weeds. [1957.

NOXIOUS WEEDS.

6° Elizabeth II., No. XLVIII.

No. 48 of 1957.

AN ACT to amend the Noxious Weeds

Act, 1950-1954.

[Assented to 26th November, 1957.]

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:—

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and citation 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Noxious

Weeds Act Amendment Act, 1957.

(2) In this Act the Noxious Weeds Act, 1950-1954,

Act No. 60 of 1950 as amended by Acts Nos. 7 of

1951, 6 of 1953 and 73 of 1954,

is referred to as the principal Act.

1957.] Noxious Weeds. [No. 48.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Noxious Weeds Act, 1950-1957.

S. 25A

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

section twenty-five a section as follows:-

25A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where there are primary noxious weeds in or upon any public or private land, the local authority, in the district of which the land is situate, may enter upon the land and carry out such work thereon as it considers necessary or expedient for the control, destruction and eradication of the primary noxious weeds; and for the purposes of this section the local authority may at its discretion pay the expenses of such work wholly out of its ordinary revenue or wholly out of the revenue made up of the noxious weed rate hereinafter referred to, or partly out of each.