Road Districts Act Amendment Act 1942 (WA)

1942.] Road Districts. [No. 5.

ROAD DISTRICTS.

6° GEO. VI., No. V.

No. 5 of 1942.

AN ACT to amend the Road Districts Act, 1919-1941.

[Assented to 28th October, 1942.]

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 tale.

Amendment Act, 1942, and shall be read, as one with the ion °,.2a.

Road Districts Act, 1919-1941 (No. 38 of 1919 as reprinted in the Appendix to the Sessional Volume of the Statutes for the year 1933-1934 and amended by the Acts No. 16 of 1934, No. 19 of 1934, No. 48 of 1934, No. 33 of 1938, No. 48 of 1938, No. 54 of 1939, No. 56 of 1939, No. 22 of 1941, and No. 28 of 1941) hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2.    Section sixty-five of the principal Act is amended Afsentierat

by inserting in paragraph (a) of subsection (3) after the words "returning officer" the words "or deputy return- ing officer."

3.    Section sixty-six of the principal Act is amended An sentr6aent

by inserting therein after subsection (1) a new subsection e t ' '

as follows:

(1s) Any member of the board, other than the chairman, may be appointed by the returning officer under subsection (1) of this section to be a deputy returning officer, and when a member of the board is so appointed nothing in this Act shall operate so as to prevent him being paid and accepting payment as remuner- ation for his services as deputy returning officer, and in any such case section twenty- four of this Act shall not apply.

No. 5.] Road Districts. [1942.

Amendment

of s. 162. 4. Section one hundred and sixty-two of the principal

Act is amended as follows :—

(a) by inserting in paragraph (22) after the word "purpose" in line two of the said paragraph the words "or purchase ;"

(b) by deleting from paragraph (22) the words "no money shall be expended for the erection of any such house or the acquisition of any such land except out of loan moneys raised for the purpose under Part VII. of this Act," in lines 10 to 13 of the said paragraph (22), and insert- ing in lieu thereof the words—"the money required for the erection or purchase of any such house or the acquisition of any such land may, subject in every case to the approval of the Minister, be expended out of the ordinary revenue of the board, or otherwise out of loan moneys raised for the purpose under Part VII. of this Act."

Amendment

ec a. 236, 5. Section two hundred and thirty-six of the principal

Act is amended as follows :-

(a) by adding to subsection (1) a further proviso

as follows:

Provided also, that instead of keeping a book as mentioned in this subsection, the board may cause the particulars prescribed in paragraphs (a) and (lo) of this subsection to be recorded by means of any system of record- ing and accounting approved by the Minister, and such system may be called and referred to as the rate book.

(b) by deleting subsection (2) and inserting in lieu thereof a subsection as follows :—

(2) The rate book, howsoever kept, shall be made up and completed not later than sixty- two days after the expiration of each financial year, and the chairman shall then initial the bottom of each page folio or card, as the case may require, either in his handwriting or by means of a stamp, and by such means initial any alteration or erasure on any such page folio or card.

Citation of

principal Act 6. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be

as amended. cited as the Road Districts Act, 1919-1942.