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SWAN AND CANNING RIVERS MANAGEMENT ACT 2006 - SECT 119

119 .         Proceedings

        (1)         A prosecution for an offence against this Act may be commenced and conducted by —

            (a)         a police officer; or

            (b)         a person authorised in writing by the Trust for the purpose of the proposed proceedings.

        (2)         In any proceedings the authority of any person to prosecute for an offence is to be presumed unless the contrary is proved.

        (3)         If in a charge of an offence against this Act there is an averment that an act occurred within the catchment area, the development control area or the Riverpark, the court, on the act being proved, is to presume in the absence of proof to the contrary that the act occurred within that area.



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