Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) The Main Roads
(Control of Signs) Regulations 1983 are repealed.
(2) A consent to the
erection and display of any sign which was granted, or deemed to be granted,
under regulation 7 of the regulations repealed by subregulation (1)
and which had effect immediately before the commencement of these regulations
is to be treated as an approval under regulation 7 and any term or
condition of such consent is to be treated as applying to the approval under
regulation 7.
(3)
Regulations 11(1), (2)(c), (3)(b) and (4), 12(1) and (2), 13 and 14(1)
and (2) apply to —
(a)
hoardings or other advertising structures that were erected or constructed;
and
(b)
advertisements that were exhibited,
before
2 February 1973 and which continued to be in place or to be
exhibited, as the case may be, at the commencement of these regulations.
(4) If an application
for consent had been made under the regulations repealed by
subregulation (1) but the application had not been finalised before the
commencement of these regulations then the application is to be treated as if
it were made under regulation 6(1).
(5) The provisions of
this regulation do not prejudice or affect the application of the
Interpretation Act 1984 to and in relation to the repeal effected by
subregulation (1).