Goldfields Act-Amendment. unauthorised occupation of Crown lands and may be proceeded against accordingly: Provided that the Governor may, for any cause which he may deem sufficient, by any subsequent notice in the Government Gazette, signed, or purporting to be signed by the Minister or the Under Secretary for Mines, cancel any notice of voidance or forfeiture, and reinstate the lessee as of his former estate or some part thereof, and on any terms and conditions as regards the lessee and any persons who, since the forfeiture, have been lawfully in possession of any part of the land, and any proceedings taken and any things lawfully done or suffered since the forfeiture as to the Governor may seem fit. In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent By Authority: RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth. F it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- 1. THIS Act may be cited as the Railways Amendment Act, Short title. 1900. 2. SECTIONS four and five of the Railway Amendment Act, Repeal of 44 Vict., 1881, are hereby repealed, and the following sections are sub- No. 17, ss. 4 and 5. stituted: 3. (1.) A LIST of all the tolls which the Governor in List of tolls to be Council shall from time to time direct and appoint to be published on a tolltaken shall be published on a toll-board, which shall be kept exhibited in a conspicuous place on each station. board. (2.) Tolls to be taken only while toll-board is exhibited. Penalty for defacing, etc. Railways Act-Amendment. (2.) The said list may be so published by being painted on the toll-board in black letters and figures on a white ground, or in white letters and figures on a black ground, or by being written or printed in legible characters on paper or other material affixed to such board, or in a book hung thereon or attached thereto. 4. THE toll-board by this Act required shall have the words "toll-board" legibly painted or printed at the head thereof, and no tolls shall be demanded or taken by the Commissioner in respect of any goods or passengers during any time at which the toll-board, with the list of tolls published thereon as by this Act required, is not exhibited in a conspicuous place at the station at or nearest to the place where such goods or passengers are received for carriage on the railway; and if any person wilfully pulls down, defaces, or destroys any toll-board or any list of tolls affixed or attached thereto, or any mile-post on the line of any railway, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding Five pounds for every such offence. In t'e name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent o this Act. ALEX. C. ONSLOW, Administrator. By Authority: RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth. BE E it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia in this present Parlia 1900, Page 495. 64 Vict., No. 25.-Repealed by No. 34 of 1911. hereinafter called the principal Act. be reported. 2. THE master, or any other person except the pilot, being in charge of any ship lying in Western Australian waters shall report Eruptive diseases to to the officer of health of the Local Board whose district includes Victorian Health or is nearest to the place where such ship is lying, or to the water Act, sec. 167. police, any illness of a suspicious kind, or any infectious or contagious disease, or any complaint attended with eruption or eruptive symptoms, which may occur in the said ship, immediately on the existence of such illness, disease, or complaint coming to his knowledge, whether such ship has been previously inspected by an officer of health or not. 3. Validation of existing Governor may proclaim district. Each local board elect members of Health Act Amendment. 3. THE persons who, after the passing of the Health Act, 1898, have acted as members of the Central Board of Health shall be deemed to have been appointed under that Act; and the acts of the said Board are hereby validated notwithstanding any defect of appointment. 4. THE Governor may, by proclamation, declare any two or more districts, municipal districts, and road board districts to be one district under the principal Act, and the board of health for such combined district shall therein exercise all the powers conferred, and perform all the duties, and be subject to the control and liabilities imposed by the principal Act upon local boards, and shall be called the District Board of Health. 5. (1.) IMMEDIATELY after the proclamation of a combined and road board to district, every municipal council and every non-municipal local board and every road board within such district shall meet, and each shall elect not more than three of their number to be members of the District Board of Health, and shall report to the Minister the result of such election. District Board. and nominate convener. (2.) The Governor shall then, by notice in the Government the persons elected Gazette, appoint the persons so elected to be members of the District Board of Health for the combined district, and so to continue until they cease to be members of the municipal council, local board, or road board by which they were respectively elected, and shall nominate one of them to be convener of the first meeting of the District Board of Health. Election of Chair. man of District ings thereof. (3.) At the first meeting of such District Board in every year, the members present shall elect one of their number to be chairman Board, and proceed for the current year, and, on any vacancy in the office of chairman, the members shall again so elect, and in case of the absence of the chairman from any meeting, the members present shall elect one of their number to be chairman of that meeting; and at all meetings of the Board the chairman shall have one vote, and, in case of equality of votes, a second or casting vote; and during any vacancy in the District Board, whether in the office of chairman or not, the continuing members may act as if no vacancy had occurred; and at all meetings of the District Board all questions shall be decided by a majority of the votes. Quorum. Board may regulate (4.) Any number of members, not being less than one half of the District Board, shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. 5.) The District Board may make, alter, and rescind rules its own proceedings. for regulating their own proceedings and the duties of their officers. 6. |
