Timber Industry Regulation Act Amendment Act 1937 (WA)

1937.] Timber Industry Regulation. [No. 20.

TIMBER INDUSTRY REGULATION.

1° Alm 2° GEO. VI., No. XX.

No. 20 of 1937.

AN ACT to make provision in the Timber Industry Regulation Act, 1926, for the registration of Sawmills within the meaning of that Act, and for other purposes relating thereto.

[Assented to 18th January, 1938.]

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 Timber Industry Shert title.

Regulation Act Amendment Act, 1937, and shall be read as one with the Timber Industry Regulation Act, 1926 (No. 59 of 1926), hereinafter referred to as the prin- cipal Act.

2.    A heading and a section are inserted in the grin- and

cipal Act after section twelve, as follows:— section.

Registration of Sawmills.

12A. (1.) After the commencement of this sec- Sandi be registered.

tion, but subject as hereinafter provided, it shall not be lawful for the owner of a sawmill to use the same in the timber industry unless such sawmill is duly registered under and, in accordance with regulations made under this Act: Provided that any owner who is at the commencement of this section using a saw- mill in the timber industry may apply for registra- tion thereof, as required by this section, within one month after the cominencement of this section, and may continue to use the said sawmill in the timber industry in the meantime.

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Provided further that the owner of every sawmill which complies with the regulations under this Act for the time being in force shall be registered subject to application being made in the prescribed forms.

(2.) As and when a sawmill is registered in com- pliance with this section such sawmill shall be deemed also to be registered as a factory under and for the purposes of the provisions of the Factories and Shops Act, 1920, without any further registration under the said last-mentioned Act; but registration of a sawmill. as a factory under the provisions of the Factories and Shops Act, 1920, shall not be deemed to be registration of the sawmill for the purposes of this section.

As and when a sawmill is registered in compli- ance with this section the officer or person so regis- tering the same shall forthwith give notice thereof in accordance with the regulations made under this Act to the Chief Inspector of Factories for the time being or from time to time holding office under the Factories and Shops Act, 1920. Thereafter subject to section twenty-nine of this Act, the provisions of the Factories and Shops Act, 1920, in relation to fac- tories within the meaning of that Act shall apply to the said sawmill.

(3.)

Amendment 3. Section twenty-three of the principal. Act is amended by inserting therein after paragraph (2) new paragraphs, as follow :—

of s. 23.

(2a) Regulating the registration of sawmills, in- cluding forms of application for registration, the officer to receive applications, the method of regis- tration, the recording of registration, and the form and issue of certificates of registration, and the re- quiring of applicants for registration of a sawmill to furnish with the applications such plans and par- ticulars in relation to the sawmill to be registered as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(2b) Prescribing the fees to be paid for registra- tion of sawmills:

Provided that the amount of the fees for registra- tion prescribed , under this paragraph shall not ex- ceed the amount of the fees which would be payable for the registration of sawmills as factories under

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the provisions of the Factories and Shops Act, 1920, if such sawmills were registered as factories under and in accordance with the provisions of the said Act.

Section twenty-six of the principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the words "and where the offence is the failure to register a sawmill in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to an additional daily penalty of two pounds for each day or part of a day dur- ing winch the offence shall have continued."

Amendment

of a. 26.

4.

5. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be Citatn loi t

cited as the Timber Industry Regulation Act, 1926-1937. 1:sr nc liaderie by this Act. 'I