Port Hedland Port Authority Amendment Act 1986 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

PORT HEDLAND PORT AUTHORITY

AMENDMENT ACT

No. 36 of 1986

AN ACT to amend the Port Hedland Port Authority Act 1970.

[Assented to 1 August 1986.]

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:—

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Port Hedland Port Authority

Amendment Act 1986.

No. 36] Port Hedland Port Authority Amendment Act [1986

Commencement

2.    This Act shall come into operation on such day as is fixed by

proclamation.

Principal Act

3.     In this Act, the Port Hedland Port Authority Act 1970* is referred

to as the principal Act.

[*Act No. 30 of 1970 as amended by Acts Nos. 94 of 1972 (as amended

by Act No. 83 of 1973), 12 of 1976, and 78 of 1979.]

Section 3 repealed

4.     Section 3 of the principal Act is repealed.

Section 4 amended

5.    Section 4 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by

inserting before the definition of "the Port" the following definition-

" "the Pilotage Area" means the area described in the Third

Schedule; ".

Section 23 amended

6.     Section 23 of the principal Act is amended

(a) in subsection (1), by inserting after "within the Port" the following-

" or approaches to the Port "; and

(b)	in subsection (2), by inserting after "the Port" the following-
" or of any channel to, or the approaches to, the Port ".

1986] Port Hedland Port Authority Amendment Act [No. 36

Section 31 amended

7. Section 31 of the principal Act is amended

(a) in subsection (1), by inserting after "Port" the following-

" and the Pilotage Area "; and

(b) in subsection (2), by inserting after "Port", in both places where it occurs, the following-

" or the Pilotage Area ".

Section 77 amended

8. Section 77 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after

"Port" the following-

" or the Pilotage Area ".

Section 82 amended

9. Section 82 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after

paragraph - paragraph (55) the following

" (55a) Prescribing, for the purposes of fixing the boundaries of

the Pilotage Area, a radius greater than the radius of 20 nautical

miles prescribed by the Third Schedule. ".

Third Schedule inserted

10. After the Second Schedule to the principal Act the following

Schedule is inserted

THIRD SCHEDULE

The Pilotage Area

All that area of the sea beyond the boundaries of the Port that is within a radius of 20 nautical miles, or such greater distance as may be prescribed by regulations, from the Hunt Point Beacon. ".