Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Subject to this
Act and to any directions of the Minister, the Board is hereby charged with
the administration and application of the Fund for such purposes connected
with the provision of amenities for coal miners and the improvement of the
physical, cultural and social well-being of coal miners, and the education,
recreation and conditions of living of coal miners, as the Board may consider
desirable.
(1a) The Board may,
with the prior approval of the Minister and upon such terms and conditions as
the Minister approves, apply money standing to the credit of the Fund for or
towards —
(a) the
operation of a home for the aged in Collie operated by Riverview Residence
(Incorporated); and
(b) the
provision of such other amenities other than those to which subsection (1)
refers, for persons including persons who are not coal miners, as the Board
considers desirable.
(2) The Minister may
give to the Board directions of a general character with respect to the
exercise and performance of its functions and the Board shall give effect to
any such directions.
(3) The Board is to
consult with the owners of coal mines before applying money standing to the
credit of the subsection (1a) account.
(4) In this section
—
subsection (1a) account means the separate account
forming part of the Fund to which —
(a)
moneys transferred under section 10(3) of the Coal Mines Legislation Amendment
and Revival Act 1998 ; and
(b) sums
paid under section 6(1a),
are to be credited.
[Section 16 amended: No. 3 of 1968 s. 2; No. 59 of
1998 s. 6; No. 17 of 2006 s. 11.]