Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts In this Act, subject
to the context —
Light includes any fire, lamp, light, illuminated
sign, street light or other mechanical, manufactured or constructed
illumination and also the glow from any such light.
Harbour light includes lighthouses, lightships,
beacons, buoys, lights and other signs, both on land and water, used as an aid
to the navigation of ships, vessels and boats entering or leaving or within a
port or harbour.
Owner includes the owner, lessee, tenant,
purchaser, hirer or other person in possession or entitled to the possession
of a light and in the case of a street light means the local government of the
district in which such street light is erected or installed.
Port Authority means —
(a) in
the case of a port under the control of a port authority established under an
Act — that port authority; and
(b) in
the case of any other port or a harbour — the Minister
administering the Shipping and Pilotage Act 1967 .
Port or Harbour includes a port or a fishing boat
harbour declared as such under the Shipping and Pilotage Act 1967 and a
port under the control of a port authority established under an Act.
[Section 2 amended by No. 47 of 1993
s. 15; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]