Railways Discontinuance Act 1928 (WA)

1928.] Railways Discontinuance. [No. 18.

RAILWAYS DISCONTINUANCE.

19° GEO. V., No. XVIII.

No. 18 of 1928.

AN ACT to authorise the Discontinuance of the opera-

tion of certain Railways, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 10th December, 1928.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in

1)E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byit and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority

of the same, as follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as the Railways tinnance ce short title.

Act, 1928.

2. (i) The cost of the railway in the second paragraph Liower to tUrn-

of the Schedule as charged to the Government Railways ce rtain	j	rearliWyns.01
Capital Account may be omitted from the accounts pre- pared under part IV. of " The Government Railways Act,
1904."
(ii) The railways mentioned in the Schedule to this Act shall, on the commencement of this Act, cease to be operated until the Governor otherwise declares, and the material thereof may be used in the construction or maintenance of any other authorised railway, provided that the material in the railway mentioned in the second paragraph of the Schedule may if necessary be otherwise disposed of.

Sen EDUL It.

The Kalgoorlie-Kanowna line (12 miles 37 chains) constructed under the Act No. 37

of 1896.

The Kamballie to Lakeside section of about 2 miles 3 chains, as opened for traffic im 8th November, 1897, as part of the Kalgoorlie (ria Boulder)-Lakeside railway, and the Lakeside-White Hope section of about 23 miles 14 chains, as opened for traffic on 17th June, 1924.