Ports and Harbours Act 1917 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO SEPTIMO

GEORGII QUINTI REGIS,

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No. 8 of 1917.

AN ACT to empower the Government to estab- lish and delimit, by Proclamation, Ports and Harbours for the purposes of Ordinances 18 Victorim, No. 15, and 37 Victorise, No. 14, and for other relative purposes.

[Assented to '23rd March, 1917.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Par-B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent of the Legislative .Council and

liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.	This Act may be cited as the Ports and Harbours Act, 1917.	Short title.
2.

It shall be lawful for the Governor, by proclamation, to de- clare that any place bounded as set out in the proclamation shall

Governor may

proclaim ports and

harbours for pur-

be a port or harbour for the purpose of Ordinances 18 Victorim,

poses of 18 Vie.,

No. 15, and 37

No. 15 (the Shipping and Pilotage Consolidation Ordinance,

Vic., No. 14.

1855), and 37 Victorim, No. 14.

The Governor may in like manner define, for the purposes of the said Ordinances, the limits of any port or harbour men-	Power to define limits of ports
and harbours
tioned in the Shipping and Pilotage Consolidation Ordinance,	specified in 18 Vic., No. 15.
1855.

3.

The Governor may, by proclamation, revoke or vary any proclamation issued under this Act.

Power to revoke

or vary

proclamations.

4.

By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.