Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts In this Act, if not
inconsistent with the context —
Authority means the Public Transport Authority of
Western Australia established by the Public Transport Authority Act 2003
section 5;
charges includes rates, fares, demurrage, storage,
rents, fines and other charges;
chief executive officer means the chief executive
officer of the Authority;
Department means the department of the Public
Service principally assisting the Minister in the administration of this Act;
goods means goods, produce, merchandise, parcels,
luggage, including passengers’ luggage, and chattels of any description,
and includes minerals and live or dead animals;
liquor has the same meaning as it has in the
Liquor Control Act 1988 ;
notice means a statement conveying the general
effect of a matter or thing done or intended to be done;
prescribed means prescribed by by-laws under this
Act;
public notice means a notice published in the
Government Gazette or in a newspaper circulating in the locality in which the
subject matter of the notice arises or to which it relates, or posted in a
conspicuous place on any railway station in such locality;
publicly notified means notified by public notice;
railway or government railway means any railway
belonging to Her Majesty in Western Australia which has been or may be
hereafter declared open for traffic by notice in the Government Gazette , and
includes —
(a) all
land belonging to Her Majesty upon which the railway is constructed, or which
is or is reputed to be held or used in connection with or for the purpose of a
railway; and also
(b) all
branch lines, sidings, buildings, erections, wharves, jetties, works,
locomotives, motor cars, motor and other vehicles, rolling-stock, plant,
machinery, goods, chattels, and other fixed or movable property of every
description or kind belonging to Her Majesty, and situate on such land, or
held or used or reputed to be held or used in connection with or for the
purposes of a railway,
except that it does not include any railway or
portion of a railway that under section 66A is not a government railway
for the purposes of this Act;
road includes street, right-of-way, and
thoroughfare.
[Section 2 amended by No. 36 of 1933
s. 3; No. 72 of 1947 s. 3; No. 78 of 1948 s. 5;
No. 37 of 1957 s. 2; No. 61 of 1970 s. 2; No. 77 of
1980 s. 2; No. 54 of 1985 s. 56; No. 16 of 1987 s. 6;
No. 87 of 1990 s. 4; No. 7 of 2002 s. 62(2); No. 31 of
2003 s. 97; No. 73 of 2006 s. 115; No. 19 of 2010
s. 60(4).]