Western Australian Current Acts

PORT AUTHORITIES ACT 1999 - SECT 139

139 .         General power to make regulations

        (1)         The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         Without limiting subsection (1) regulations may be made for all or any of the purposes, or about all or any of the matters, set out in Schedule 7.

        (3)         Regulations under this Act may be expressed to prevail over regulations made under the GTE Act.

        (4)         Regulations in reliance on subsection (3) must not be made except on the recommendation of —

            (a)         the Minister; and

            (b)         the Minister to whom the administration of the GTE Act is committed.

        (5)         If and to the extent that regulations under this Act are so expressed, in the event of a conflict or inconsistency between a provision of those regulations and a provision of regulations made under the GTE Act, the former provision prevails.

        [Section 139 amended: No. 13 of 2023 s. 241.]