Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) With the consent
of a statutory asset owner from whom assets are to be transferred, the
Minister may make and publish in the Gazette an order
specifying —
(a) the
statutory asset owner;
(b) the
assets that are to be transferred and the affected land; and
(c) the
transferee.
(2) The transfer order
may specify assets and the affected land by reference to schedules
which —
(a) need
not be published in the Gazette ; but
(b) must
be available for inspection by the public at a place identified in the order.
(3) If the transfer
order specifies by reference to schedules assets that are in a local
government district, the schedules must be available for inspection by the
public under subsection (2)(b) at least by exhibiting
them —
(a) on a
notice board at the local government’s offices; and
(b) on a
notice board at every local government library in the district.
(4) Schedules must be
exhibited under subsection (3) for a reasonable time, being not less
than —
(a) the
time prescribed for the purposes of this subsection; or
(b) if
no time is prescribed, 7 days.
(5) Notice of the
places where schedules are to be exhibited under subsection (3) must be
published in a newspaper circulating in the relevant local government district
at least 14 days before the schedules are so exhibited.
(6) The form and
content of a schedule by reference to which a transfer order specifies assets
and affected land is to be approved, before the order is made, by each
relevant official to whom a copy of it will be required to be delivered under
section 46G.
(7) The transfer order
may, with the consent of the transferor and the transferee, be amended by the
Minister, by further order published in the Gazette , but no such amendment
may be made after the transfer day.
(8) For the purposes
of this section the Water Corporation is to be taken to have consented to
anything that it is obliged to do because of a direction given to it under the
Water Corporation Act 1995 by the Minister administering that Act.
(9) The Minister is to
cause a copy of an order published under this section to be laid before each
House of Parliament within 6 sitting days of that House after the order
is published.
(10) Either House of
Parliament may, by resolution of which notice has been given within 14 sitting
days of that House after an order has been laid before it, pass a resolution
disallowing the order.
(11) As soon as an
order is no longer subject to disallowance under subsection (10), the
order takes effect.
(12) The Minister is
to cause notice to be published in the Gazette showing the day on which an
order took effect under subsection (11).
[Section 46B inserted by No. 33 of 1997
s. 3.]