Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CONSERVATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1984 - SECT 131A

131A .         Ministerial directions, tabling of

        (1)         The Minister must cause the text of any direction under section 24(1) or 26C(1) to be laid before each House of Parliament, or dealt with under subsection (2), within 14 days after the direction is given.

        (2)         If —

            (a)         at the commencement of the period referred to in subsection (1) a House of Parliament is not sitting; and

            (b)         the Minister is of the opinion that that House will not sit during that period,

                the Minister is to transmit a copy of the direction to the Clerk of that House.

        (3)         A copy of a direction transmitted to the Clerk of a House is taken to have been laid before that House.

        (4)         The laying of a copy of a direction that is taken to have occurred under subsection (3) is to be recorded in the Minutes, or Votes and Proceedings, of the House on the first sitting day of the House after the Clerk received the copy.

        [Section 131A inserted by No. 35 of 2000 s. 47; amended by No. 8 of 2009 s. 34.]