Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) In this section
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former water authority means —
(a) a
Minister of the State; or
(b) an
agency, authority or instrumentality of the State; or
(c) a
body, whether incorporated or not, established or continued for a public
purpose by or under a written law,
who or that, at any time before the commencement
of section 4(1) of this Act, performed functions relating to the provision of
water services;
order means an order made under subsection (2) or
(3), as the case requires;
relevant official , in relation to an estate or
interest in land, or a reserve, specified in an order, means —
(a) the
Registrar of Titles; or
(b) the
Registrar of Deeds and Transfers; or
(c) any
other person authorised by a written law to register or otherwise act on
dealings affecting land,
according to which of them, if any, is responsible
for registering or otherwise acting on dealings affecting the estate or
interest or the reserve.
(2) The Minister may,
by order published in the Gazette , direct that an estate or interest in land
specified in the order be vested in the Water Corporation if —
(a) the
estate or interest was previously vested in a former water authority or the
State; and
(b) the
estate or interest is, or is to be, used by the Water Corporation for the
purposes of this Act or the Water Services Act.
(3) The Minister may,
by order published in the Gazette , direct that the care, control and
management of a reserve (as defined in the Land Administration Act 1997
section 3(1)) specified in the order is to be placed with the Water
Corporation under the Land Administration Act 1997 section 46, if —
(a) the
care, control and management of the reserve was previously placed with a
former water authority under that section; and
(b) the
reserve is, or is to be, used by the Water Corporation for the purposes of
this Act or the Water Services Act.
(4) An order takes
effect —
(a) at
the beginning of the day after the day on which the order is published in the
Gazette ; or
(b) if a
later day is specified in the order — at the beginning of that day.
(5) When an order
takes effect —
(a) in
the case of an order under subsection (2) — each estate or interest in
land specified in the order vests in the Water Corporation by force of this
paragraph; or
(b) in
the case of an order under subsection (3) — the care, control and
management of each reserve specified in the order is, by force of this
paragraph, placed with the Water Corporation as if it were so placed under the
Land Administration Act 1997 section 46.
(6) The Minister must
give a copy of the order to each relevant official who must do all things
necessary to show the effect of subsection (5)(a) or (b), as the case
requires.
[Section 92 inserted: No. 25 of 2012 s. 163.]