Western Australian Current Acts

PUBLIC WORKS ACT 1902

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title
            
   2.      Terms used
            
   2A.     Governor may declare public work
            
   4.      Governor may make regulations for conduct of officers
            
   5.      Minister for Works
            
   5A.     Delegation by Minister
            
   5B.     Subdelegation of delegated power or duty
            
   6.      Rights, liabilities and interests of Minister devolve on Minister’s successor
            
   7.      Appointment of engineers and other officers

   PART IA -- Western Australian Building Management Authority  

   9A.     Terms used
            
   9B.     Western Australian Building Management Authority continued as body corporate
            
   9C.     Functions and powers of Building Management Authority
            
   9D.     Use of staff and facilities of departments, agencies and instrumentalities
            
   9E.     Funds of Building Management Authority
            
   9F.     Delegation by Building Management Authority
            
   9G.     Financial Management Act 2006 and Auditor General Act 2006, application of
            
   9I.     Regulations

   PART II -- Authorising public works  

   10.     Entry on land required for a public work
            
   11.     Governor may authorise railways
            
   28.     Power may be exercised after initiation of a public work

   PART IV -- Surveys  

   82.     Powers of entry on lands etc. for survey purposes
            
   83.     Penalty for destroying survey marks etc.

   PART IVA -- Investigations for water  

   83A.    Terms used; power of entry
            
   83B.    Offences
            
   83C.    Compensation

   PART V -- Roads, rivers, and bridges  

   84.     Term used: road
            
   85.     Roads vested in the Crown
            
   86.     Construction and repair of roads and declaration of Government roads
            
   87.     Government roads under exclusive care of Minister
            
   88.     Local laws
            
   90.     Breach of local law
            
   91.     Governor may vest control of any bridge etc. in local authority
            
   92.     Stopping or diverting of road
            
   93.     Improvement of rivers and other watercourses
            
   94.     Construction, repair and maintenance of bridges and culverts

   PART VI -- Railways  

   95.     Term used: railway
            
   96.     Railways to be made only under special Act
            
   99.     Powers to make railways, railway stations etc.
            
   100.    Rights-of-way and traffic where railway made along or across road
            
   101.    Compensation where road interfered with or wholly closed
            
   102.    Government to make crossings to give access to land
            
   103.    Maintenance of public roads at railway crossings and near railway stations
            
   104.    Alterations in roads, drains, pipes etc. to be made without detriment to the public or to owners
            
   106.    Conversion of railway bridge to combined road and railway bridge
            
   107.    Right-of-way and closure of combined road and railway bridges
            
   108.    Tree dangerous to railway to be removed
            
   109.    Penalties for trespassing on railway in course of construction
            
   110.    Crown may elect to erect and maintain fences along boundaries of railways
            
   111.    Impounding animals trespassing on railway in course of construction

   PART VIA -- Miscellaneous  

   112.    Waste management operations at Mt Walton
            
   113.    Delegation of powers and duties under section

   PART VII -- General provisions  

   113A.   Property in things placed on the land
            
   115.    Governor may execute instruments
            
   118.    Moneys due by local authority may be deducted from moneys payable to it by Government
            
   120.    Penalty for obstruction, interference, destruction and similar acts; and recovery of costs
            
   122.    Works authorised or anything commenced under repealed enactments
            
   123.    Public works under previous Acts to be deemed constructed under this Act
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Classes of public work