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WATERWAYS CONSERVATION ACT 1976 - SECT 51

51 .         Removal of structures

                Where any structure or other matter or thing — 

            (a)         has been the subject of an order made or an injunction granted under this Act and that order or injunction has not been complied with; or

            (b)         appears to the Minister to have been abandoned or to belong to a person the whereabouts of whom cannot be traced without unreasonable difficulty or expense,

                the Minister may apply to the Supreme Court or The District Court of Western Australia for an order with respect to the disposal of that structure or other matter or thing and the Court may authorise the Minister, upon such terms as the Court thinks fit, to undertake the removal and to dispose of that matter or thing in any manner authorised by the Court.

        [Section 51 amended by No. 38 of 2007 s. 166 and 188.]



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