Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MARINE AND HARBOURS ACT 1981 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This is a compilation of the Marine and Harbours Act 1981 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table ^1a. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Marine and Harbours Act 1981	21 of 1981	26 May 1981	1 Mar 1982 (see s. 2 and Gazette 5 Feb 1982 p. 410)
Acts Amendment (Financial Administration and Audit) Act 1985 s. 3	98 of 1985	4 Dec 1985	1 Jul 1986 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 1986 p. 2255)
Acts Amendment (Public Service) Act 1987 s. 32	113 of 1987	31 Dec 1987	16 Mar 1988 (see s. 2 and Gazette 16 Mar 1988 p. 813)
Acts Amendment (Swan River Trust) Act 1988 Pt. 5	21 of 1988	5 Oct 1988	1 Mar 1989 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Jan 1989 p. 264)
Financial Administration Legislation Amendment Act 1993 s. 11	6 of 1993	27 Aug 1993	1 Jul 1993 (see s. 2(1))
Ports (Functions) Act 1993 Pt. 3	46 of 1993	20 Dec 1993	15 Jun 1994 (see s. 2 and Gazette 10 Jun 1994 p. 2373)
Acts Amendment (Department of Transport) Act 1993 Pt. 9	47 of 1993	20 Dec 1993	1 Jan 1994 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 1993 p. 6861)
Acts Amendment (Public Sector Management) Act 1994 s. 19	32 of 1994	29 Jun 1994	1 Oct 1994 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Sep 1994 p. 4948)
Marine and Harbours Amendment Act 1994 2	78 of 1994	13 Dec 1994	13 Dec 1994 (see s. 2)
Sentencing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1995 Pt. 50	78 of 1995	16 Jan 1996	4 Nov 1996 (see s. 2 and Gazette 25 Oct 1996 p. 5632)
Local Government (Consequential Amendments) Act 1996 s. 4	14 of 1996	28 Jun 1996	1 Jul 1996 (see s. 2)
Reprint of the Marine and Harbours Act 1981 as at 25 Nov 1996 (includes amendments listed above)
Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1997 s. 142	31 of 1997	3 Oct 1997	30 Mar 1998 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Mar 1998 p. 1765)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2003 s. 80	74 of 2003	15 Dec 2003	15 Dec 2003 (see s. 2)
Reprint 2: The Marine and Harbours Act 1981 as at 14 May 2004 (includes amendments listed above)
Criminal Procedure and Appeals (Consequential and Other Provisions) Act 2004 s. 80	84 of 2004	16 Dec 2004	2 May 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7129 (correction in Gazette 7 Jan 2005 p. 53))
Planning and Development (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2005 s. 15	38 of 2005	12 Dec 2005	9 Apr 2006 (see s. 2 and Gazette 21 Mar 2006 p. 1078)
Swan and Canning Rivers (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2006 s. 6	52 of 2006	6 Oct 2006	25 Sep 2007 (see s. 2 and Gazette 25 Sep 2007 p. 4835)
Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 s. 4 and 17	77 of 2006	21 Dec 2006	1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)
Reprint 3: The Marine and Harbours Act 1981 as at 14 Mar 2008 (includes amendments listed above)

^1a On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Road Traffic Legislation Amendment Act 2012 Pt. 4 Div. 32 3	8 of 2012	21 May 2012	Operative on commencement of the Road Traffic (Administration) Act 2008 (see s. 2(d))

² The Marine and Harbours Amendment Act 1994 s. 6(2) reads as follows:

“

(2) A lease which was granted or purportedly granted under section 12 of the principal Act before the commencement of this section —

(a) to enable land or property to be used for community activities; or

(b) to enable the commercial development of land or property by any person,

is to be taken to be, and always to have been, as valid as it would have been if it had been granted for a purpose falling within the purposes of the principal Act or relating to the functions of the Department.

”.

³ On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, the Road Traffic Legislation Amendment Act 2012 Pt. 4 Div. 32 had not come into operation. It reads as follows:

Division 32 — Marine and Harbours Act 1981 amended

131. Act amended

This Division amends the Marine and Harbours Act 1981.

132. Section 18B amended

In section 18B(3) in the definition of motor vehicle delete “Road Traffic Act 1974.” and insert:

Road Traffic (Administration) Act 2008 section 4.

Defined Terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined Term Provision(s)
authorised officer 18A(1), 18B(3)
chief executive officer 3
Department 3
departmental area 3
departmental land 3
former department 20(1)
former office 20(1)
infringement notice 3
motor vehicle 18B(3)
Port Authority 3
port works 5(2)
services 5A(1), 6A(3)
specified 19(4)