The Roads Act Amendment Act 1909 (WA)

WESTERN ATTSTRALIA.

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EDWARDI SEPTIMI REGIS,

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No. 52 of 1909.

AN ACT to further amend the Roads Act, 1902.

[Assented to 21st December, 1909.]

Legislative Assembly of -Western Australia, in this present Parlia- BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1.     This Act. may be cited as the Roads Act Amendment Act, Short title.

1909, and shall be read as one with the Roads Act, 1902,

hereinafter called the principal Act.

2.      Any sea or river jetty the approach to which is within a Jetties.

district shall, if the Governor by Order in Council so directs, be deemed to be within the district, and if such jetty is a public jetty it shall, if the Governor so directs, he under the management and control of the Board of the district.

3.      Any tramway or railway constructed under any lease, permit, Rating of timber

license, or other authority, granted under the provisions of the tramways' structed under the provisions of the Mining Act, 1904, shall be rateable under the principal Act. and be assessed at an animal value of Five pounds per cemtum on the capital cost of such tramway or railway less a reasonable percentage for depreciation.

1909, No. 52.] Roads Act—Amendment. [9 EDW. VII.

Provided that in arriving at such capital cost machinery and rolling stock shall not be taken into consideration.

Provided also that any dispute as to such capital cost or per- centage for depreciation shall be referred to and finally decided by the Minister.

Power to establish

The Board may establish and maintain public hospitals for the reception and treatment of the sick, or may subsidise any such public hospital, established within or without its district, or any resident medical officer: Provided that no more than seven and a half per centum of the ordinary revenue of the Board shall in any year be applied to the purposes of this section.

or subsidise 4.

hospitals.

Power to subsidise 5. The Board may out of its ordinary revenue subsidise for

ferry services.

a period not exceeding two years at any one time, any ferry service

between its district and any municipal or road district.

Fire brigades. 6.

The Board may establish and maintain fire brigades within

its district, or may subsidise any fire brigade established within its

district or in any adjoining district:

Provided that no more than seven and a half per centum of the ordinary revenue of the Board shall in any year be applied to the purposes of this section.

Power to dissolve 7.

If the ordinary revenue of any Road Board shall, in any financial year, be less than Two hundred pounds the Governor may by Order in Council abolish the district and include the area thereof in any adjoining road district, and the proviso to section six of the principal Act shall not apply.

district if revenue

under £200.

Amendment of see. 8. Section twenty-five of the principal Act is amended by

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striking out subsection four and by inserting subsections as

follows :—

(4.) No person shall be entitled to vote at any election unless all rates assessed upon the land in respect of which the qualification arises are paid at least seven clear days before the date of the election.

(5.) Any owner or occupier of land who has paid all rates due date of any election shall, on the production of an official receipt from the Road Board for such payment, be entitled to vote although the name of such ratepayer does not appear on the electoral roll. in respect thereof at least seven clear days before the

By Authority: A. Cunns, Acting Government Printer, Perth.