Parks and Reserves Act Amendment Act 1955 (WA)

1955.] Parks and Reserves. [No. 17.

PARKS AND RESERVES.

4° Elizabeth II., No. XVII.

No. 17 of 1955.

AN ACT to amend the Parks and Reserves Act,

1895-1954.

[Assented to 1st November, 1955.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and 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 Parks and niarlatn.

Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1955.

(2) In this Act the Parks and Reserves Act, 1895-

1954,

Act 59 Victoriae No. 30 as amended by Acts

Nos. 60 of 1947 and 59 of 1954.

is referred to as the principal Act.

No. 17.] Parks and Reserves. [1955.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Parks and Reserves Act, 1895- 1955.

S. 2 amended. 2. Section two of the principal Act is amended

by adding after the interpretation "Board" the

following interpretation

"function" includes power, right, benefit and

obligation.

S. 3 amended

3. Section three of the principal Act is amended by adding the following subsections:

The Governor may by proclamation constitute any Board under such name as he deems fit, a body corporate with perpetual succession and a Common Seal with power to sue and be sued in its corporate name, to acquire, hold, lease and dispose of real and personal property to borrow money with the approval of the Governor and to do and permit to be done all things which are required by this Act to be done by a Board or which are neces- sary and convenient to be done by a Board for the purpose of giving effect to this Act.

(4)

Where a Board is constituted a body corporate under the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, by force of this subsection, the functions until then exercised and exer- ciseable by the Board shall be transferred to the Board as so constituted and an order in council which has placed a reserve under the control of the Board shall be amended so as to place the reserve under the Board as so constituted.

(5)

S. 8 amended. 4. Subsection (1) of section eight of the principal

Act is amended by adding after the word "Board" in line six the words "and where a Board is consti- tuted a body corporate under the provisions of section three of this Act prescribing the manner in which the Seal of the Board may be affixed to documents, and the manner in which documents issued by the Board may be authenticated."