Road Districts Act Amendment Act 1938 (No. 2) (WA)

1938.] Road Districts. [No. 33.

ROAD DISTRICTS.

2° and 3° Gno. VI., No. XXXIII.

No. 33 of 1938.

AN ACT to amend the Road Districts Act, 1919-1934, by adding a paragraph to section two hundred and four thereof.

[Assented to 31st January, 1939.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Road Districts Act Short title.

Amendment Act, 1938 (No. 2) and shall be read as one with the Road Districts Act, 1919-1934, hereinafter called the principal Act.

2. Section two hundred and four of the principal Act Amendment of s. 204 of

is amended by adding a paragraph as follows:—

the principal

Act.

(60) (i) for all or any of the purposes for which Regulating the taking ce

regulations may be made under paragraphs (b) and fish.

(c) of section six of the Fisheries Act, 1905-1921, or

for which proclamations may be made under sec-

tions eight and nine of such Act, but so that the

application and effect of by-laws made by a Board

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under the authority of this paragraph shall be re- stricted to West Australian waters vested in or under the control of the Board;

for providing that under license from the Board, fish may be taken from waters to which by-laws under this paragraph apply;

(ii)

for all matters which are necessary or con- venient to be prescribed for the purpose of carry- ing out or giving effect to by-laws as fully as if they were regulations or proclamations under the Fisheries Act, 1905-1921, and in particular for pro- viding

(iii)

(a)	for the detection, punishment and apprehen- sion of offenders and the prevention of offences;
(b)	for the forfeiture to His Majesty of property or articles used or intended to be used and fish taken in breach of any by-law; and
(c)	for adopting the benefit of section thirty-four of the Fisheries Act, 1905-1921, and apply- ing the provisions of such section mutatis mutandis to prosecutions for breaches of by-laws.