Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act Amendment Act 1913 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUARTO

GEORGII QUINTI REGIS,

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No. 11 of 1913.

AN ACT to amend the Water Supply, Sewerage,

and Drainage Act, 1912.

[Assented to 8th November, 1913.]

B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and	Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Water Supply, Sewerage, and Short title.

Drainage Act Amendment Act, 1913, and shall be read as one with the Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1912, hereinafter referred to as the•rincipal Act.

(1.) If any officer on the permanent staff Lot the public service at the commencement on !this Act, whose office is not exempt from the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1904, was duly and formally appointed as a permanent officer Officers.

2.

(a) of the Goldfields Water Supply Administration ; or

(b) under the Minister for Works in his administration of

the Metropolitan Waterworks Act, 1896, or the Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage, or the Minister of Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage in his administration of the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1909,

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his service under such appointment shall be deemed to have been service in a permanent office to which the Public Service Act, 1904, applies.

(2.) Any person who, immediately prior to the llth day of

November, 1904, was employed as a permanent salaried officer of the Metropolitan Waterworks Board, and whose services were continued from and after that date by the Minister for Works, shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to have been duly and formally appointed by the Minister on that date.

(3.) If any question shall arise under this section it shall

be referred to the Governor in Executive Council, whose decision

shall be final.

(4.) No officer shall, by virtue only of this section, have any

claim to any additional payment in respect of salary or allowance.

Power to dissolve

Boards. 3.

The power conferred on the Governor by the principal Act to dissolve a Board shall extend and be deemed as from the com- mencement of the principal Act to have extended to any Board constituted, appointed, or elected under the provisions of any of the Acts mentioned in the schedule to the principal Act.

Repeal of see. 21. 4.

Section twenty-one of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the said Act shall be and the same is hereby made perpetual.

By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.