Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Authority may
establish and maintain a public market and branches thereof in the
metropolitan area, for the purpose of handling, grading, storing, disinfecting
or fumigating, dealing in, selling or otherwise disposing of general produce
and may permit land held by the Authority to be used and occupied for the
purpose of providing such commercial, business, professional, trade and other
facilities as the Authority considers necessary or desirable for the
convenience of persons using the market, resorting thereto, or buying or
selling therein.
(2) For such purposes
the Authority may —
(a)
acquire land, machinery, plant, goods, chattels, and effects;
(b)
erect, maintain, and repair buildings with all necessary machinery and plant;
(ba)
grant leases of land held by the Authority;
(c)
construct, or have constructed, or rent, railway sidings and all necessary
appurtenances thereto;
(d) make
roads, market ways, and drains, and convenient approaches to the market;
(e) with
the approval of the appropriate local government declare, by a notification in
the Gazette , and constitute any portion of a public street adjacent to the
market a part of the market for such times and subject to such conditions as
may be prescribed.
(2a) Subject to the
prior approval of the Minister, the Authority may from its funds make grants
of money for purposes that, in the opinion of the Authority, will promote the
sale of general produce.
(2b) A grant made
under subsection (2a) may be made subject to such terms and conditions as
the Authority thinks fit.
(3) Whenever any land
is required by the Authority for the purposes of this Act, such land may be
entered upon, surveyed, and taken in accordance with Part 9 of the
Land Administration Act 1997 , and that Act shall apply and may be
availed of as if the Authority were a local authority.
(4) Except as provided
under subsection (4a), land vested in the Authority shall be exempt from
local government and other rates.
(4a) The Minister may
by notice published in the Gazette declare any portion of land vested in the
Authority —
(a) not
to be exempt from local government and other rates; or
(b) to
be exempt only in respect of such percentage of the local government and other
rates as is specified in the notice,
and in such a notice
may make different provision for different portions of the land.
(5) Notwithstanding
the provisions of this Act as in force from time to time before the date of
the coming into operation of the Metropolitan Market Act Amendment
Act 1977 1 , it shall be deemed that, before that date, the Authority
always had all of the powers conferred on it by this Act as amended by that
Act.
[Section 11 amended by No. 31 of 1962
s. 2; No. 25 of 1977 s. 2; No. 77 of 1981 s. 7;
No. 29 of 1987 s. 11; No. 6 of 1990 s. 7; No. 14 of
1996 s. 4; No. 31 of 1997 s. 142.]