Public Works (Country Towns Water Supply and Sewerage) Amendment Act 1924 (NSW)

PUBLIC WOEKS (COUNTRY

TOWNS WATEE SUPPLY AND

SEWEEAGE) AMENDMENT ACT.

Act No. 40, 1924.

An Act to provide for the carrying out under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1912, works of water supply or sewerage and works incidental thereto for municipalities and. shires without the works being referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works ; to amend the Public Works Act, 1912, and certain other Acts ; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to. 19th December, 1924.]

13 E it enacted by the Kind's Most Kxcellent Majesty, -P by and with the advice and consent of the 1 .legis-	lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South
Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—
1 . This Act may he cited as the " Public Works (Country Towns Water Supply and Sewerage) Amend-
ment Act, 1924." 2 .

2 . The Public Works Act, 1912, is amended by inserting after subsection two of section thirty-four the following new subsection :—

(3) "Where the council of a municipality or shire lias made an application under section three hundred and seventy-throe of the Local Government Act, 191'.*, for the construction, by the Minister, of a work of water supply or sewerage or any work incidental to water supply or sewerage, for the municipality or shire or part thereof, or for two or more areas as defined in the said Act or parts
thereof, the (Governor, notwithstanding that the

estimated cost of the work exceeds the sum of twenty thousand pounds, may direct that the work shall be carried out under this Act, in which case all the powers and provisions of this Act relating to authorised works shall be applicable to such work, and the same shall for the purpose of this Act be deemed to be an authorised work.