Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC WORKS ACT 1902

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title  

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   2.      Terms used in this Act  
   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.      Contracts etc. of Minister to devolve on his successor  
   7.      Appointment of engineers and other officers  

   PART IA -- Western Australian Building Management Authority  

   9A.     Terms used in this Part  
   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.     Application of Financial Management Act 2006 and Auditor General Act 2006  
   9I.     Regulations  

   PART II -- Authorising public works  

   10.     Entry on land required for a public work  
   11.     Governor may authorise works  
   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 in this Part and power of entry  
   83B.    Offences  
   83C.    Compensation  

   PART V -- Roads, rivers, and bridges  

   84.     Meaning of “road” for purposes of Act  
   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.     Meaning of “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 112  

   PART VII -- General provisions  

   113A.   Property in things placed on the land  
   114.    Buildings exempted from local building regulations  
   115.    Governor may execute instruments  
   118.    Moneys due by local authority may be deducted from moneys payable to it by Government  
   120.    Penalty for obstructing workmen or destroying survey marks, fences etc.  
   122.    Works authorised or anything commenced under repealed enactments  
   123.    Public works under previous Acts to be deemed constructed under this Act  
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[Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 16 May 2008]