Waterways Conservation Amendment Act 1980 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

WATERWAYS

CONSERVATION.

No. 16 of 1980.

AN ACT to amend section 14 of, and the Schedule

to, the Waterways Conservation Act 1976.

[Assented to 15 October 1980.]

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:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Waterways	Short title
and citation.

Conservation Amendment Act 1980.

(2) In this Act the Waterways Conservation Act 131 of 1976

1976 is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Waterways Conservation Act

1976-1980.

No. 16.] Waterways Conservation. [1980.

Commence-

ment.	2. This Act shall come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the day on which it is assented to by the Governor.
Section 14
amended.	3. Section 14 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (2) the following sub- section

" (2a) Of the members of a Management Authority other than the Chairman, one shall be appointed by the Governor to be the Deputy Chairman of that Authority and a person so appointed

(a)	shall preside at any meeting of that Authority at which he, but not the Chairman, is present; and
(b)	in the event of the absence of the Chairman of that Management Authority from any meeting of the Waterways Commission, shall be entitled to attend that meeting and act in the office of the Chairman of the Management Authority and, when so attending, has all the powers, functions and duties of a member of the Commission. " .

Schedule

amended. 4. The Schedule to the principal Act is

amended in paragraph 1.(2) by deleting "In" and

substituting the following-

" Subject to section 14(2a), in " .