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EASTERN GOLDFIELDS TRANSPORT BOARD REPEAL BILL 2007

                     Western Australia


Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Repeal
                 Bill 2007

                        CONTENTS


       Part 1 -- Preliminary
 1.    Short title                                        2
 2.    The Act repealed                                   2
       Part 2 -- Transitional and savings
            provisions
 3.    Terms used in this Part                            3
 4.    Interpretation Act to apply                        3
 5.    Devolution of the Board's assets, rights and
       liabilities                                        4
 6.    Agreements and instruments generally               4
 7.    Staff                                              5
 8.    Funds                                              5
 9.    Registration of documents                          5
 10.   Saving                                             6
       Part 3 -- Consequential amendments
 11.   Acts Amendment and Repeal (Competition Policy)
       Act 2003 amended                                   7
 12.   Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899 amended       7
 13.   Financial Management Act 2006 amended              7
 14.   Statutory Corporations (Liability of Directors)
       Act 1996 amended                                   8
 15.   Transport Co-ordination Act 1966 amended           8
 16.   State Superannuation Regulations 2001 amended      8
       Defined Terms


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                     LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY



   Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Repeal
                    Bill 2007


                               A Bill for


An Act to --
•  repeal the Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Act 1984; and
•  amend certain other Acts as a consequence,
and for related purposes.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:




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                           Part 1 -- Preliminary
    1.       Short title
             This is the Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Repeal
             Act 2007.

5   2.       The Act repealed
             The Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Act 1984 is repealed.




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          Part 2 -- Transitional and savings provisions
     3.    Terms used in this Part
           In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears --
           "assets" means property of every kind whether tangible or
 5              intangible, real or personal, or corporeal or incorporeal and
                includes without limitation --
                (a) choses in action; and
                (b) goodwill; and
                (c) rights, interests and claims of every kind in or to
10                     property,
                whether arising from, accruing under, created or evidenced
                by, or the subject of, an instrument or otherwise and
                whether liquidated or unliquidated, actual, contingent or
                prospective;
15         "Authority" means Public Transport Authority of Western
                Australia established under the Public Transport Authority
                Act 2003 section 5;
           "Board" means The Eastern Goldfields Transport Board
                formerly preserved and continued under the Eastern
20              Goldfields Transport Board Act 1984 section 4;
           "commencement day" means the day on which this Act comes
                into operation;
           "liability" means any liability, duty or obligation whether
                actual, contingent or prospective, liquidated or
25              unliquidated, or whether owed alone or jointly or jointly
                and severally with any other person;
           "right" means any right, power, privilege or immunity whether
                actual, contingent or prospective.

     4.    Interpretation Act to apply
30         This Part does not limit the operation of the Interpretation
           Act 1984 Part V.


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     5.         Devolution of the Board's assets, rights and liabilities
          (1)   On the commencement day --
                 (a) the assets and rights of the Board immediately before
                       that day become assets and rights of the Authority by
 5                     force of this section; and
                 (b)   the liabilities of the Board immediately before that day
                       become, by force of this section, liabilities of the
                       Authority.
          (2)   On and after the commencement day, any proceedings that
10              immediately before that day might have been brought or
                continued by the Board may be brought or continued by the
                Authority.
          (3)   On and after the commencement day, any remedy that
                immediately before that day is available against or to the Board
15              is available against or to the Authority.

     6.         Agreements and instruments generally
          (1)   Any agreement or instrument subsisting immediately before the
                commencement day --
                  (a) to which the Board is a party; or
20                (b) which contains a reference to the Board,
                has effect on and after the commencement day as if --
                  (c) the Authority were substituted for the Board as a party
                        to the agreement or instrument; and
                  (d) any reference in the agreement or instrument to the
25                      Board were (unless the context otherwise requires)
                        amended to be or include a reference to the Authority.
          (2)   Subsection (1) does not apply to the --
                 (a) Transport Workers (Eastern Goldfields Transport
                       Board) Award 1976; and
30               (b) Transport Workers (Eastern Goldfields Transport
                       Board) Agreement 2005; and

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                 (c)    Engineering Trades (Government) Award 1967; and
                 (d)    Engineering Trades (Government) General
                        Agreement 2004; and
                  (e)   Government Officers Salaries Allowances and
 5                      Conditions Award 1989; and
                  (f)   Government Officers Salaries Allowances and
                        Conditions General Agreement 2004.

     7.         Staff
          (1)   A person appointed or engaged by the Board immediately
10              before the commencement day is to be taken after the
                commencement day to be employed or engaged by the
                Authority.
          (2)   Except as otherwise agreed by a person referred to in
                subsection (1), the remuneration, existing, accruing or accrued
15              rights, rights under a superannuation scheme and continuity of
                service of a member of staff are not prejudiced or interrupted by
                the operation of that subsection.

     8.         Funds
                On or after the commencement day an account maintained
20              under the Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Act 1984
                section 20(1), as in force immediately before the
                commencement day, is to be closed by the chief executive
                officer of the Authority and the moneys in the account credited
                to the account referred to in the Public Transport Authority
25              Act 2003 section 32.

     9.         Registration of documents
                The Registrar of Titles is to take notice of the provisions of this
                Part and is to record and register in the appropriate manner the
                necessary documents, and otherwise to give effect to this Part.




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     10.      Saving
              The operation of any provision of this Part is not to be
              regarded --
                (a) as a breach of contract or confidence or otherwise as a
 5                   civil wrong; or
               (b)     as a breach of any contractual provision prohibiting,
                       restricting or regulating the assignment or transfer of
                       assets, rights or liabilities or the disclosure of
                       information; or
10             (c)     as giving rise to any remedy by a party to an instrument
                       or as causing or permitting the termination of any
                       instrument, because of a change in the beneficial or legal
                       ownership of any asset, right or liability; or
               (d)     as causing any contract or instrument to be void or
15                     otherwise unenforceable; or
               (e)     as releasing or allowing the release of any surety.




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                   Part 3 -- Consequential amendments
     11.         Acts Amendment and Repeal (Competition Policy) Act 2003
                 amended
           (1)   The amendment in this section is to the Acts Amendment and
 5               Repeal (Competition Policy) Act 2003*.
                 [* Act No. 70 of 2003.]
           (2)   Part 6 is repealed.

     12.         Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899 amended
           (1)   The amendment in this section is to the Constitution Acts
10               Amendment Act 1899*.
                 [* Reprint 14 as at 21 April 2006.
                    For subsequent amendments see Western Australian
                    Legislation Information Tables for 2006, Table 1, and
                    Acts Nos. 29 and 32 of 2005 and 64 and 77 of 2006.]
15         (2)   Schedule V Part 3 is amended by deleting "The Eastern
                 Goldfields Transport Board preserved and continued under the
                 Eastern Goldfields Transport Board Act 1984.".

     13.         Financial Management Act 2006 amended
           (1)   The amendment in this section is to the Financial Management
20               Act 2006*.
                 [* Act No. 76 of 2006.
                    For subsequent amendments see Act No. 77 of 2006.]
           (2)   Schedule 1 is amended by deleting "The Eastern Goldfields
                 Transport Board".




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     14.         Statutory Corporations (Liability of Directors) Act 1996
                 amended
           (1)   The amendment in this section is to the Statutory Corporations
                 (Liability of Directors) Act 1996*.
 5               [* Reprint 4 as at 9 February 2007.]
           (2)   Schedule 1 is amended by deleting the entry relating to the
                 "Eastern Goldfields Transport Board".

     15.         Transport Co-ordination Act 1966 amended
           (1)   The amendment in this section is to the Transport
10               Co-ordination Act 1966*.
                 [* Reprint 8 as at 5 August 2005.
                    For subsequent amendments see Western Australian
                    Legislation Information Tables for 2006, Table 1, and
                    Act No. 77 of 2006.]
15         (2)   Section 15B(2)(j) is amended by deleting "the Eastern
                 Goldfields Transport Board Act 1984 and".

     16.         State Superannuation Regulations 2001 amended
           (1)   The amendment in this section is to the State Superannuation
                 Regulations 2001*.
20               [* Reprint 2 as at 2 September 2005.
                    For subsequent amendments see Western Australian
                    Legislation Information Tables for 2006, Table 4.]
           (2)   Schedule 1 Division 2 item 17 is deleted.




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                                                                                               Defined Terms



                                      Defined Terms
      [This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined.
                             The list is not part of the law.]
Defined Term                                                                                          Provision(s)
assets ............................................................................................................... 3
Authority.......................................................................................................... 3
Board............................................................................................................... 3
commencement day.......................................................................................... 3
liability ............................................................................................................ 3
right ................................................................................................................. 3




 


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