Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts In this Act the
expression municipal authority means any of the following authorities, that is
to say:
The Town Council of
any borough, for the time being, subject to the Municipal Institutions Act
1895 3 , and any Act amending the same, any commissioners, trustees, or other
persons invested by any local Act of Parliament with powers of improving,
cleansing, lighting, or paving any town, and any local board.
Any municipal
authority, or company, or contractor who has obtained authority by or in
pursuance of any general or local Act of Parliament to supply the streets of
any city, borough, town, or place, or of any part thereof with electric light,
gas, or which is required, by or in pursuance of any general or local Act of
Parliament, to supply water on demand to the inhabitants of any city, borough,
town, or place, or any part thereof, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be
deemed to be a municipal authority, or company, or contractor upon whom is
imposed, by Act of Parliament, the duty of supplying such city, borough, town,
or place, or part thereof, with electric light, gas, or water.