Painters' Registration Act Amendment Act 1976 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

PAINTERS' REGISTRATION.

No. 78 of 1976.

AN ACT to amend the Painters' Registration Act,

1961-1974.

[Assented to 18th October, 1976.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Painters' and citation. Short te

Registration Act Amendment Act, 1976.

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1961-1976.

No. 78.] Painters' Registration. [1976.

Section 2

amended. 2. Section 2 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the interpretation "painting" and substi- tuting the following interpretation

"painting" means the application by any method recognised or adopted by the painting trade of paint, varnish or stain or any substance or preparation of a composition similar thereto or recognised by the said trade as a substitute therefor to the whole or any part of a building or other structure of a kind recognised by law as a fixture (but not being a floor, path or drive-way composed of concrete or other similar substance) and

(a)

includes such processes or treat- ments as are commonly known to the said trade as graining, kalsomining, marbling, distemper- ing, gilding, colour-washing, staining, varnishing and plastic reliefing;

includes the hanging of wall-paper

and any substitute therefore;

does not include painting which consists of the application of a protective coating to part of a building or other structure (not being a dwelling-house or like building or structure) which has first been treated by a process known as abrasive blasting or mechanical cleaning under a contract whereby the same contractor undertook both that process and the application of the protective coating;

(d) does not include painting work in the nature of signwriting; .