Metropolitan Water Authority Act 1982 (WA)

Western Australia Metropolitan Arterial Drainage Act 1982 Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 17 January 2014

Western Australia Metropolitan Arterial Drainage Act 1982 Contents Part I — Preliminary 1. Short title 2 2. Commencement 2 4. Terms used 2 5. Relation to Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909 and references to former Board etc. 3 Part II — Administration 19. Exemption from personal liability 5 Part IX — Drainage Division 1 — Arterial Drainage Scheme 98. Scheme 7 Division 2 — Arterial drains 99. Management of arterial drains 9 Division 5 — Drainage courses 106. Declaration of drainage course 10 107. Development in drainage courses 12 Notes Compilation table 13 Defined terms Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 17 January 2014

Western Australia Metropolitan Arterial Drainage Act 1982 An Act to provide for an Arterial Drainage Scheme and the declaration of drainage courses. [Long title inserted: No. 25 of 2012 s. 21.]

Part I — Preliminary [Division heading deleted: No. 110 of 1985 s. 15.]

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Arterial Drainage Act 1982 1. [Section 1 amended: No. 25 of 2012 s. 22.]

2. Commencement The provisions of this Act shall come into operation on such day or days as is or are respectively fixed by proclamation 1. [3. Deleted: No. 25 of 1985 s. 30.]

4. Terms used (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires — arterial drain means an existing or proposed drainage asset classified as an arterial drain in the Arterial Drainage Scheme; Arterial Drainage Scheme or Scheme means the scheme of that name compiled pursuant to Part IX; drainage assets has the meaning given in the Water Services Act 2012 section 108; drainage course means an area declared to be a drainage course pursuant to section 106; former Authority means the Water Authority of Western Australia under the Water Agencies (Powers) Act 1984 2 before the commencement of Part 2 of the Water Agencies Restructure (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 1995 3; former Commission means the Water and Rivers Commission established by section 4 of the Water and Rivers Commission Act 1995 4 and in existence before the repeal of that Act; former Metropolitan Authority means the Metropolitan Water Authority under this Act before the commencement of section 36 of the Acts Amendment and Repeal (Water Authorities) Act 1985 1; licensee has the meaning given in the Water Services Act 2012 section 3(1). (1A) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, terms not otherwise assigned a meaning under this section but referred to in section 3 of the Water Agencies (Powers) Act 1984 as having a meaning assigned for the purposes of a relevant Act have that meaning in and for the purposes of this Act. [(2) deleted] [Section 4 amended: No. 101 of 1982 s. 4; No. 25 of 1985 s. 31; No. 110 of 1985 s. 16; No. 24 of 1987 s. 12; No. 73 of 1995 s. 82 and 93; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 67 of 2003 Sch. 2 cl. 47; No. 55 of 2004 s. 753; No. 38 of 2007 s. 25; No. 19 of 2010 s. 51; No. 25 of 2012 s. 23.]