Public Works Act Amendment Act 1967 (WA)

1967.] Public Works. [No. 53.

PUBLIC WORKS.

No. 53 of 1967.

AN ACT to amend section thirty-two of the Public

Works Act, 1902-1966.

[Assented to 5th December, 1967.]

RE 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:—

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1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Public and citation,

Works Act Amendment Act, 1967.

(2)	In this Act the Public Works Act, 1902-1966, Vol. 14	Reprinted
Acts

is referred to as the principal Act.

approved for

reprint

27th August,

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act 2,1%`att

may be cited as the Public Works Act, 19024967. by Acts	Nos. 46 of
1961, 59 of 1965 and 41 of 1966.

No. 53.] Public Works. [1967.

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amended. 2. Section thirty-two of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by substituting for the word, "If" in line one, the passage, "(1) Subject to sub- sections (2) and (3) of this section, if" ;
(b)	by adding after the word, "railway" in line four, the passage, ", or if any land reserved under the Land Act, 1933, for a purpose that is, under this Act, a Government work or a local work, on which improvements exist or have been erected for the purposes of, or for purposes incidental to, that work," ;
(c)	by deleting the passage, "; but no lease shall be granted by a local authority for a term exceeding three years without the consent in writing of the Minister" in lines eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen; and
(d)	by adding subsections as follow

(2) A local authority shall not under

this section

(a)	let any Crown land without having first obtained the con- sent in writing of the Minister for Lands; or
(b)	grant a lease for a term exceed- ing three years without having first obtained the consent in writing of the Minister.

(3) A lease of Crown land granted under this section shall not be mort- gaged, assigned or charged for any purpose unless the consent thereto in writing of the Minister for Lands has been first obtained.