Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Commissioners
shall divide the State into regions so that those regions generally reflect
the recognised communities of interest and land use patterns in the State and
so that —
(a) 3
contiguous regions, to be known, respectively, as the North Metropolitan
Region (being a region that is generally to the north of the Swan River), the
South Metropolitan Region (being a region that is generally to the south of
the Swan River) and the East Metropolitan Region (being a region that includes
the hills and foothills of the Darling Escarpment) —
(i)
each consist of approximately the same number of complete
and contiguous districts; and
(ii)
together form an area that is generally coextensive with
the metropolitan area of Perth;
(b) one
region, to be known as the Mining and Pastoral Region, consists of complete
and contiguous districts that together form an area that is remote from Perth
and in which the land use is primarily for mining and pastoral purposes;
(c) one
region, to be known as the Agricultural Region, consists of complete and
contiguous districts that together form an area that is generally south, or
south and west, of and adjacent to the Mining and Pastoral Region and in which
the land use is primarily for agricultural purposes; and
(d) one
region, to be known as the South West Region (being a region that includes
coastal and forest areas in the south-west of the State), consists of complete
and contiguous districts.
(2) In
subsection (1) —
metropolitan area of Perth means the part of the
State that comprises —
(a) the
region that was, as at the relevant day, described in the Third Schedule to
the Metropolitan Region Town Planning Scheme Act 1959 3 ; and
(b)
Rottnest Island.
[Section 16H inserted by No. 1 of 2005
s. 4.]