State Transport Co-ordination Act Amendment Act 1956 (WA)

No. 60.] State Transport Co-ordination. [1956.

STATE TRANSPORT

CO-ORDINATION.

5° Elizabeth II., No. LX.

No. 60 of 1956.

AN ACT to amend the State Transport

Co-ordination Act, 1933-1954.

[Assented to 27th December, 1956.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and 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 Trans-

port Co-ordination Act Amendment Act, 1956.

Reprinted as

approved for	(2) In this Act the State Transport Co-ordination
reprint,

Dth May,	Act, 1933-1954,
let6.

1956.] State Transport Co-ordination. [No. 60. Act No. 42 of 1933 as reprinted with amendments to and including Act No. 68 of 1954 incorporated pursuant to the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the State Transport Co-ordination Act, 1933-1956.

2. Section twenty-five of the principal Act is —nded.

amended by adding the following subsection:

(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, the Board may erect or cause to be erected at any stopping place so appointed

(a)	any sign indicating and identifying the stopping place; and
(b)	shelters of a design and construction which the Minister approves and is hereby authorised to approve.

Provided that before erecting or causing to be erected any sign or shelter as authorised by this subsection the Board will confer with the local authority concerned. If agreement cannot be reached on the location, size and type of any shelter the matter in dispute shall be determined by arbitration under and in accordance with the Arbitration Act, 1895, unless the parties agree on some other method of determination.

S. 31

3. Section thirty-one of the principal Act is amended.

amended

(a) by adding after the section designation, "31" the subsection designation, "(1)"; and

(b) by adding the following subsections

(2) In this section, "local authority" AI i?‘ .13 60 of

means the Commissioner of Police in respect of every district and sub-district for which he is the licensing authority under the provisions of the Traffic Act,

No. 60.] State Transport Co-ordination. [1956.

Cf. reg. 300,

Gazette	(3) Any stand so appointed shall be deemed for the purposes of the regula- tions made under the Traffic Act, 1919, to be a special parking stand.
No. 59,
15/12/59.

S. 58

amded. 4. Subsection (1) of section fifty-eight of the en

principal Act is amended by adding after paragraph

(f) the following paragraph

(fa) stopping places and signs and shelters; .

S. 60

amended. 5. Section sixty of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by deleting the passage, "(including the erection of shelter sheds or other amenities along such route)" in lines four, five and six of paragraph (a) of subsection (3);
(b)	by adding before the words, "be divided" in line seven of paragraph (a) of subsection (3) and again in line six of paragraph (b) of subsection (3), the passage, ", subject to paragraph (d) of this subsection,"; and
(c)	by adding after parragraph (c) of sub- section (3) the following paragraph

(d) Where the Board expends from the balance any sums for the provision or maintenance or both of signs or shelters or both, which by this Act the Board is authorised to do, on or adjacent to any road or street under the care, control or management of any of those statutory authorities, the amount payable to the statutory authority, as the result of a division mentioned in paragraph (a) or para- graph (b) of this subsection, shall be reduced by the sum so expended by the Board, and shall be brought into account in respect of the division.