Lights (Navigation Protection) Act 1938 (WA)

Western Australia Lights (Navigation Protection) Act 1938 Western Australia Lights (Navigation Protection) Act 1938 Contents 1. Short title 1 2. Terms used 1 3. Powers in relation to lights 2 4. Port manager may cause requisitions of notice to be carried out 3 5. Civil rights 4 6. Saving provision 4 7. Proceedings for offences 5 8. Delegation 5 9. Regulations 6 Notes Compilation table 7 Defined terms Western Australia Lights (Navigation Protection) Act 1938 An Act relating to lights likely to be a danger to marine navigation.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Lights (Navigation Protection) Act 1938 1.

2. Terms used In this Act, subject to the context — chief executive officer means the chief executive officer of the department; department means the department of the Public Service principally assisting the Minister in the administration of this Act; harbour includes a boat harbour declared under the Shipping and Pilotage Act 1967 section 10(2); harbour light includes lighthouses, lightships, beacons, buoys, lights and other signs, both on land and water, used as an aid to the navigation of ships, vessels and boats entering or leaving or within a port or harbour; light includes any fire, lamp, light, illuminated sign, street light or other mechanical, manufactured or constructed illumination and also the glow from any such light; owner includes the owner, lessee, tenant, purchaser, hirer or other person in possession or entitled to the possession of a light and in the case of a street light means the local government of the district in which such street light is erected or installed; port includes — (a) a port declared under the Shipping and Pilotage Act 1967 section 10(1); and (b) a port as defined in the Port Authorities Act 1999 section 3(1); port manager means — (a) in the case of a port under the control of a port authority established under the Port Authorities Act 1999 — that port authority; or (b) in the case of any other port or a harbour — the chief executive officer. [Section 2 amended: No. 47 of 1993 s. 15; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 2 of 2019 s. 17.]