Western Australian Current Acts

SHIPPING AND PILOTAGE ACT 1967 - SECT 10

10 .         Declaration of ports and other areas

        (1)         The regulations may declare an area of water, or land and water, intended for use either wholly or partly in connection with the movement, loading, unloading, maintenance or provisioning of vessels to be a port for the purposes of this Act.

        (1a)         A port is to be —

            (a)         known by the name; and

            (b)         bounded by the limits,

                specified in the regulations in relation to that port.

        (1b)         A port as defined in the Port Authorities Act 1999 section 3(1) is not a port for the purposes of this Act and a declaration under subsection (1) cannot relate to such a port.

        (1c)         The regulations may declare an area of water outside a port to be an area in which pilotage services are to be used.

        (2)         The Governor may by proclamation —

            (a)         declare any place described in the proclamation to be a boat harbour or mooring control area for the purposes of this Act; or

            (b)         vary the boundaries of a place declared to be a boat harbour or mooring control area under this subsection, or declare a boat harbour or mooring control area to be no longer a boat harbour or mooring control area, as the case may be, for the purposes of this Act; or

            (ba)         in relation to a boat harbour or mooring control area, specify a body corporate or the CEO as the controlling authority of the boat harbour or mooring control area; or

            (c)         vary or revoke any proclamation made under this section.

        (3)         In subsections (4) and (5) —

        existing port means a port specified in the Schedule repealed by the Shipping and Pilotage Amendment Act 2006 section 14;

        regulations means regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1).

        (4)         An area declared to be a port by the initial regulations is taken to be the same port as an existing port of the same name even if it is bounded by different limits.

        (5)         If —

            (a)         the initial regulations divide an existing port into 2 or more ports; or

            (b)         subsequent regulations divide a port into 2 or more ports,

                the regulations may contain any transitional provisions that are necessary or convenient in relation to the division.

        [Section 10 amended: No. 88 of 1978 s. 8; No. 38 of 1983 s. 3 ¹ ; No. 26 of 1984 s. 5; No. 39 of 1985 s. 101; No. 46 of 1993 s. 44; No. 71 of 2006 s. 10; No. 2 of 2019 s. 58, 60 and 61.]