Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts [(1), (2) deleted]
(3) If any drain, not
within the boundaries of a drainage district, is declared by Order in Council
to be a State drain the area defined by that or a subsequent Order in Council
to be land that benefits by the construction of the drain shall be deemed a
district within the meaning of this Act.
(3a) If any drain or
works has or have been constructed, partly constructed or improved by the
Crown, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, in any portion of
the State at a time when such portion of the State was not comprised in a
drainage district constituted under any Act repealed by this Act or under this
Act, and since the construction, partial construction or improvement of such
drain or works the portion of the State in which it, or they, has, or have
been constructed, partly constructed or improved as aforesaid, has been or
hereafter shall be constituted a drainage district under this Act, or if any
drain or works has or have prior to the commencement of this subsection been
constructed, partly constructed or improved by the Crown in any portion of the
State which at the time of the construction, partial construction or
improvement of such drain or works, was a drainage district under any Act
repealed by this Act, or under this Act, and in order to resolve any doubt as
to whether such drain or works aforesaid has or have either under this Act or
any other Act been vested in a former Minister the former Authority or the
Corporation, as the case may be, any such drain or works aforesaid shall, for
all the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been constructed under the
provisions of this Act by the Corporation and shall be deemed to be vested in
the Corporation and the provisions of this section and all other sections of
this Act shall apply in relation to such drain or works accordingly.
(4) The provisions of
this section shall apply, and be deemed to have applied in respect of any
district the board whereof was dissolved before the commencement of this Act.
[Section 9 amended by No. 43 of 1941
s. 3; No. 25 of 1985 s. 223; No. 73 of 1995 s. 77.]
[ 10. Deleted by No. 25 of 1985 s. 224.]