State Transport Co-ordination Act Amendment Act 1959 (WA)

1959.1	State Transport Co-ordination. [No. 57.
STATE TRANSPORT

CO-ORDINATION.

8° Elizabeth II., No. LVII.

No. 57 of 1959.

AN ACT to amend the State Transport Co-ordination

Act, 1933-1957.

[Assented to 25th November, 1959.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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

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

Transport Co-ordination Act Amendment Act, 1959.

Reprinted

In this Act the State Transport Co-ordination Act, 1933-1957, is referred to as the principal Act.	as approved for reprint
9/4/1959.
(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the State Transport Co-ordination Act, 1933-1959.

(2)

No. 57.] State Transport Co-ordination. [1959.

S. 10

amended. 2. Section ten of the principal Act is amended

by adding after paragraph (e) the following

paragraph

advise the Minister as to the areas which,

(f) because of the absence of a railway service or an adequate railway service, require to be served by road transport, and recom- mend, subject to this Act, the routes to be followed by that transport, the classes of goods to be carried, and the extent to which in the interests of public transport it is expedient that subsidies be granted in aid of that road transport.

S. SEA

added. 3. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section fifty-eight the following section-

Governor

may make	58A. (1) The Governor may from time to time, after considering the advice and recom- mendations of the Board to the Minister under paragraph (f) of section ten of this Act, make such regulations as may be deemed necessary or desirable for the purpose of providing and maintaining road transport of goods in areas not served by a railway service or an adequate railway service, and in particular but without limiting the generality of the power conferred by this section regulations may be so made prescribing or relating to
certain
regulations.

(a)	the areas to be served, and the routes to be followed, by that road transport;
(b)	the classes of goods to be carried by that road transport;
(c)	the rates to be paid in respect of any subsidies granted in aid of that road transport and the manner of such payment.

(2) Regulations made under this section are in addition to and not in derogation of any regulations made by the Board under the power conferred on it by section fifty-eight of this Act, but where a regulation made under this section

State Transport Co-ordination. [No. 57. conflicts or is inconsistent with a regulation made under section fifty-eight of this Act, the regulation made under this section shall prevail.

1959.]

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-six of the Interpretation Act, 1918, a regulation made under this section for the purpose of reducing or withdrawing any subsidy granted in aid of road transport under the provisions of this Act, shall not take effect or have any force of law until such time as the regulation is no longer subject to disallowance under section thirty-six of the Interpretation Act, 1918.