PUBLIC WORKS ACT 1902

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

PART I -- Preliminary  

• 1 Short title
 
• 2 Terms used
 
• 2A Governor may declare public work
 
• 4 Governor may make regulations for conduct of officers
 
• 5 Minister for Works
 
• 5A Delegation by Minister
 
• 5B Subdelegation of delegated power or duty
 
• 6 Rights, liabilities and interests of Minister devolve on Minister’s successor
 
• 7 Appointment of engineers and other officers

PART IA -- Western Australian Building Management Authority  

• 9A Terms used
 
• 9B Western Australian Building Management Authority continued as body corporate
 
• 9C Functions and powers of Building Management Authority
 
• 9D Use of staff and facilities of departments, agencies and instrumentalities
 
• 9E Funds of Building Management Authority
 
• 9F Delegation by Building Management Authority
 
• 9G Financial Management Act 2006 and Auditor General Act 2006, application of
 
• 9I Regulations

PART II -- Authorising public works  

• 10 Entry on land required for a public work
 
• 11 Governor may authorise railways
 
• 28 Power may be exercised after initiation of a public work

PART IV -- Surveys  

• 82 Powers of entry on lands etc. for survey purposes
 
• 83 Penalty for destroying survey marks etc.

PART IVA -- Investigations for water  

• 83A Terms used; power of entry
 
• 83B Offences
 
• 83C Compensation

PART V -- Roads, rivers, and bridges  

• 84 Term used: road
 
• 85 Roads vested in the Crown
 
• 86 Construction and repair of roads and declaration of Government roads
 
• 87 Government roads under exclusive care of Minister
 
• 88 Local laws
 
• 90 Breach of local law
 
• 91 Governor may vest control of any bridge etc. in local authority
 
• 92 Stopping or diverting of road
 
• 93 Improvement of rivers and other watercourses
 
• 94 Construction, repair and maintenance of bridges and culverts

PART VI -- Railways  

• 95 Term used: railway
 
• 96 Railways to be made only under special Act
 
• 99 Powers to make railways, railway stations etc.
 
• 100 Rights-of-way and traffic where railway made along or across road
 
• 101 Compensation where road interfered with or wholly closed
 
• 102 Government to make crossings to give access to land
 
• 103 Maintenance of public roads at railway crossings and near railway stations
 
• 104 Alterations in roads, drains, pipes etc. to be made without detriment to the public or to owners
 
• 106 Conversion of railway bridge to combined road and railway bridge
 
• 107 Right-of-way and closure of combined road and railway bridges
 
• 108 Tree dangerous to railway to be removed
 
• 109 Penalties for trespassing on railway in course of construction
 
• 110 Crown may elect to erect and maintain fences along boundaries of railways
 
• 111 Impounding animals trespassing on railway in course of construction

PART VIA -- Miscellaneous  

• 112 Waste management operations at Mt Walton
 
• 113 Delegation of powers and duties under section

PART VII -- General provisions  

• 113A Property in things placed on the land
 
• 115 Governor may execute instruments
 
• 118 Moneys due by local authority may be deducted from moneys payable to it by Government
 
• 120 Penalty for obstruction, interference, destruction and similar acts; and recovery of costs
 
• 122 Works authorised or anything commenced under repealed enactments
 
• 123 Public works under previous Acts to be deemed constructed under this Act
• SCHEDULE 1 -- Classes of public work