Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to this
Act, the Water Agencies (Powers) Act 1984 and, where required by those
Acts, to the approval of the Minister, the Corporation may construct and
extend works and from time to time may maintain, improve, alter, and repair
the same, and for such purposes may exercise, in addition to the powers
conferred by those Acts, the powers conferred by the
Public Works Act 1902 except that the Public Works Act 1902 is to
be read and construed as though —
(a) a
reference in it to the Minister administering that Act were a reference to the
Corporation; and
(b) the
provisions of the Water Agencies (Powers) Act 1984 relating to entry
onto land and the giving of notice had effect in substitution for the
provisions of Part 9 of the Land Administration Act 1997 relating
to those matters, in relation to the construction of public works under the
Public Works Act 1902 .
[(2) deleted]
(3) The Corporation
may, at the request of a person or local government and with the approval of
the Governor, acquire from the person or local government the whole or part of
any sewerage works of that person or local government and all or any property
used in connection with those sewerage works on and subject to such terms and
conditions as may be mutually agreed.
(4) The Corporation
shall cause notice of the fact of any acquisition made under
subsection (3) to be published in the Government Gazette .
(5) As from the date
of the publication referred to in subsection (4), the sewerage works and
property concerned shall, by force of this subsection and without any
conveyance, transfer or assignment, be transferred to and vested in the
Corporation and shall be deemed to be works under and for the purposes of this
Act and the Water Agencies (Powers) Act 1984 .
[Section 11 amended by No. 47 of 1967
s. 3; No. 49 of 1976 s. 2; No. 96 of 1978 s. 3;
No. 25 of 1985 s. 164; No. 73 of 1995 s. 71 and 73;
No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 31 of 1997 s. 20(1) and 142;
No. 25 of 2005 s. 17.]
[ 12-22. Deleted by No. 25 of 1985
s. 165.]