Reserves Act 1997 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

RESERVES ACT 1997

No. 38 of 1997

AN ACT to effect certain changes in respect of certain

reserves and other land.

[Assented to 19 November 1997]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

s. 1

PART 1 — PRELIMINARY

Short title

1.   This Act may be cited as the Reserves Act 1997.

Commencement

2. This Act comes into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

Interpretation

3.   In this Act —

‘‘the Authority’’ means the National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority established by section 21 of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984.

Plans and diagrams

4. The plans and diagrams referred to in this Act are held by

the Graphic Bank within the Department of Land

Administration.

s. 5

PART 2 — ALTERATIONS TO AND CANCELLATIONS OF

RESERVES

Reserve No. 2682 in the Town of Albany

5. Reserve No. 2682, classified as of Class A, comprising 115.144 8 hectares set apart for ‘‘Public Park’’ and vested in the Town of Albany, is amended by excising an area of 2 521 square metres, as surveyed and shown on Diagram 92968 as part of the land comprising Albany Lot 1449, so that the reserve comprises 114.892 7 hectares.

Reserve No. 12397 in the Shire of Brookton

6. The purpose of Reserve No. 12397, classified as of Class A, comprising 3.710 9 hectares set apart for ‘‘Water’’ and vested in the Minister for Water Resources, is changed to ‘‘Conservation of Flora and Fauna, and Water’’.

Closure of road, and reserves Nos. 17644, 24151 and 18987 in the Shire of Plantagenet

7.   (1)

All that portion of Bolganup Road (Road No. 11946) as surveyed and shown on Diagrams 2871 and 2872, comprising 2.885 9 hectares or thereabouts, starting from the prolongation southerly of the eastern boundary of the northern severance of Porongurup Estate Lot 13 and extending generally north-easterly through Lots 14 and 15 of that Estate and north-easterly along the boundary of Lot 16 of that Estate to the prolongation south-easterly of the southernmost south-western boundary of Lot 17 of that Estate, is closed and all rights of way over that portion cease.

(2) The land contained in the portion of Bolganup Road closed under subsection (1) is constituted Crown land within the meaning of that expression in the Land Act 1933.

s. 7

Reserve No. 17644, classified as of Class C, comprising 2.367 4 hectares set apart for ‘‘Quarry (gravel)’’, as described as Plantagenet Location 5356 and shown on Reserve Diagram 1450, is cancelled.

(3)

(4) The 16.197 5 hectares of land comprising Plantagenet Location 142, referred to in Certificate of Title Volume 1783 Folio 407, are —