State Electricity Commission Act Amendment Act 1959 (WA)

No. 5.]	State Electricity Commission.	[1959.
STATE ELECTRICITY

COMMISSION.

8° Elizabeth II., No. V.

No. 5 of 1959.

AN ACT to amend the State Electricity Commission

Act, 1945-1956.

[Assented to 7th September, 1959.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the State

Electricity Commission Act Amendment Act, 1959.

Vol. 10 of the (2)

In this Act the State Electricity Commission (3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited a3 the State Electricity Commission Act, 1945-1959.

Reprinted

Acts.

Approved	Act, 1945-1956, is referred to as the principal Act.
for reprint 19th June, 1956.

1959.] State Electricity Commission. [No. 5.

2. The principal Act is amended by adding after waded.

section twenty-nine E the following section-

Power of

29F. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections twenty-nine A to twenty-nine D of this

Commission

to amend

superan- nuation

Act inclusive and subject to the approval of the

scheme.

Governor and to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, the Commission may from time to time amend any term or condition or both of the superannuation scheme constituted under section twenty-nine A of this Act includ- ing any term or condition set out in the sections of this Act first mentioned in this section.

(2) Where the Commission duly amends a term or condition of the scheme, the term or condition as so amended is not binding on a contributor to the scheme unless at his option he elects to be bound thereby.

(3) Where the Commission duly makes an amendment to the scheme, the Commission shall cause a copy of the amendment to be published in the Government Gazette.