Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to
section 51A and section 53, all or any of the powers conferred by
this Act on a water board in and for the construction of works in any water
area may be exercised by —
(a) the
Minister;
(b) the
Corporation, on the request of the water board; or
(c) the
Corporation, if the Minister so directs or approves.
(2) Where at the
request of a water board —
(a) any
works are constructed, extended or improved by the Minister or the
Corporation; or
(b) any
other work is carried out or caused to be carried out by the Minister or the
Corporation in advising, or providing designs for, a water board or in
investigating, monitoring or testing water supplies for, or water supplied by,
a water board,
the Minister or the
Corporation, as the case requires, may send to the water board a statement of
account showing the cost of and incidental to those works or that work and
require that such cost, or a specified part of such cost, be borne by the
water board.
(3) Where the Minister
or the Corporation sends to a water board a statement of account pursuant to
subsection (2) and requires that the cost, or a specified part of the
cost, of the matters referred to in that statement be borne by the water
board —
(a) that
cost, or that specified part of that cost, is payable by the water board in
accordance with that requirement; and
(b) if
the water board fails to pay that cost, or any part of that cost, within
30 days of being required to do so by the Minister or the Corporation, as
the case may be, the amount in question may be recovered in a court of
competent jurisdiction from the board by the Minister as a debt due by the
water board to the Crown in right of the State or, as the case requires, by
the Corporation as a debt due by the water board to the Corporation.
[Section 52 amended by No. 25 of 1985
s. 342; No. 73 of 1995 s. 154 and 159.]