Transport Co-ordination Amendment Act 1990 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

T NSPORT CO-ORDINATION

ENDMENT ACT

No. 34 of 1990

AN ACT to amend the Transport Co-ordination Act 1966 and

for related purposes.

[Assented to 9 October 1990]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Transport Co-ordination

Amendment Act 1990.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

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Principal Act

3. In this Act the Transport Co-ordination Act 1966* is referred to

as the principal Act.

(*Reprinted as at 6 March 1987 and amended by Acts Nos. 95

and 115 of 1987.]

Section 62 amended

4. Section 62 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (3) by

deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraph-

" (a) such amounts as are, in the opinion of the Minister,

necessary or expedient to be granted-

(i)    in the interests of public transport in aid of any transport service or scheme, including amounts for the provision and maintenance of vehicles, facilities, signs, shelters and amenities relating to the service or scheme;

(ii)   to defray any loss, operating cost or capital cost incurred by any person (including a State public authority) in the provision of a transport service;

(iii)  to subsidize or pay the transport fares of any class of persons;

(iv) to promote any transport service; ".

Validation

5. (1) Every payment out of the Fund made before the

commencement of this Act that would have been lawful if section 62 (3) (a) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 4 of this Act) had been in force at the time that such a payment was made is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully paid.

(2) In subsection (1)

"Fund" means the Transport Co-ordination Fund established

under section 62 of the principal Act.