Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

DAMPIER PORT AUTHORITY ACT 1985 - SECT 56

56 .         Power to distrain certain property for recovery of port charges

        (1)         A collector of port charges may —

            (a)         distrain —

                  (i)         any vessel and the equipment thereof; or

                  (ii)         any goods,

                in respect of which port charges are payable and have not been paid;

            (b)         subject to paragraph (c), store any property distrained under this section until the port charges payable in respect of that property and the expenses of distraining and storing that property are paid; and

            (c)         if the port charges and expenses referred to in paragraph (b) are not paid within 7 days after the distress concerned, cause the property distrained under this subsection or any part thereof to be sold, pay out of the proceeds of that sale the amount of those port charges and of the expenses of distraining, storing and selling that property under this subsection and pay the balance, if any, of those proceeds to the owner of the property concerned or, if the identity or whereabouts or both of that owner cannot be ascertained after diligent inquiries, to the credit of the Account.

        (2)         The powers conferred by subsection (1) are in addition to any other remedy provided by this Act for the recovery of port charges.

        [Section 56 amended by No. 49 of 1996 s.64.]