Police Ordinance amendment (1877) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUADRAGESI1VIO PRIMO

VICTORIA', REGINIE.

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No. XVIII.

AN ACT to amend the twenty-sixth section of " The

Police Ordinance, 1861."

[ Assented to, 17th August, 1877. ]

HEREAS, by the twenty-sixth section of " The Police

for any person to bathe in or near any public wharf, or public place,WOrdinance, 1861," it is enacted that it shall not be lawful

or quay, or jetty in or near any city or town between the hours of six of the clock in the morning and eight of the clock in the evening; And whereas it is expedient to give power to Municipal Councils to make by-laws regulating the hours within which, and conditions under which bathing may be permitted in or near to such places as aforesaid within the limits of their respective Municipalities ; Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the .Legislative Council thereof; as follows

1 FROM and after the passing of this Act it Shall be lawful for

any Municipal Council duly constituted under the provisions of

410 ITICTORI/E, No. 18.

Bathing—Regulation of hours for.

"The Municipal Institutions' Act, 1876," subject to the provisions of the said Act, to make, publish, alter, modify, amend, or repeal such by-laws and regulations as to them shall seem meet for regula- ting the hours within and the conditions under which bathing shall be permitted in or near to any public wharf, or public place, or quay, or jetty within the limits of its Municipality ; and when any Council has made any such by-laws as aforesaid, then within the jurisdiction of such Council the subject of bathing shall cease to be regulated by section twenty-six of " The Police Ordinance, 1861," in so far as the provisions of the said section may be at variance with the provisions of the said by-laws.

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

this Act.

WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, Governor.

By Authority: RICHARD Prrumt, Government Printer, Perth.