Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY ACT 1973 - SECT 7

7 .         Compensation and prior vesting

        (1)         Compensation is not payable to any person by reason that the property in and the right to possession of any site, relic, or thing is vested in the Museum on behalf of the Crown by the operation of this Act.

        (2)         It is hereby declared that the property in and the right to possession of any ship or relic by operation of this Act vested in the Museum on behalf of the Crown shall be taken to have been so vested for all purposes at all material times — 

            (a)         in the Board, in relation to the period from the date of the coming into operation of the Museum Act Amendment Act 1964  ³ , to the date of the coming into operation of section 42 of the Museum Act 1969  ⁴ ; and

            (b)         in the Museum, in relation to the period from the date of the coming into operation of section 42 of the Museum Act 1969 ⁴ , to the date of the coming into operation of this Act  ¹ .