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SWAN AND CANNING RIVERS MANAGEMENT ACT 2006 (NO. 51 OF 2006) - SECT 3

3 .         Terms used in this Act

        (1)         In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

        “Account” means the Swan River Trust Account referred to in section 42;

        “board” means the board of management referred to in section 18;

        “catchment area” means the land and waters referred to in section 8;

        “chairman” means chairman of the board;

        “committee” means a committee established under section 36;

        “Crown land” has the meaning given to that term in the Land Administration Act 1997 ;

        “development” means —

            (a)         the erection, construction, demolition, alteration or carrying out of any building, excavation, or other works, in, on, over or under land or waters;

            (b)         a material change in the use of land or waters; and

            (c)         any other act or activity in relation to land or waters declared by the regulations to constitute development,

                but does not include any work, act or activity declared by the regulations not to constitute development;

        “development control area” means the land and waters referred to in section 10, and includes any land the subject of an agreement under section 28 for management as if the land were part of the development control area;

        “Foundation” means the Swan and Canning Rivers Foundation established under section 127;

        “Foundation Account” means the Swan and Canning Rivers Foundation Account referred to in section 131;

        “General Manager” means the person appointed as such for the purposes of section 37;

        “high water mark” —

            (a)         in relation to tidal waters — means the ordinary high water mark at spring tides; and

            (b)         in relation to non-tidal waters — means the ordinary high water mark at winter level;

        “inspector” means —

            (a)         a person designated as such under section 39; or

            (b)         a police officer;

        “land” includes tidal land and land covered by water, whether continuously or discontinuously;

        “lot” has the meaning given to that term in the Planning and Development Act 2005 ;

        “management programme” means a management programme referred to in section 53 and approved and in force under Part 4;

        “member” means a member of the board;

        “Metropolitan Region Scheme” has the meaning given to that term in the Planning and Development Act 2005 ;

        “Minister for Planning” means the Minister to whom the administration of the Planning and Development Act 2005 is committed;

        “officer of the Trust” means —

            (a)         the General Manager;

            (b)         a person whose services are provided under section 37(2) or used under section 38(1); or

            (c)         a person engaged under section 24(2)(a)(i);

        “owner” means —

            (a)         in relation to freehold land —

                  (i)         a holder of the freehold; or

                  (ii)         a mortgagee in possession;

                and

            (b)         in relation to Crown land —

                  (i)         the care, control and management of which has been placed in a management body as defined in the Land Administration Act 1997  — that management body;

                  (ii)         which is reserved, set apart or vested for, or dedicated to, the purposes of another written law — the person who is responsible for the administration of that Crown land while it is so reserved, set apart, vested or dedicated; and

                  (iii)         other than land referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii) — the Minister for Lands, as referred to in the Land Administration Act 1997 section 7;

        “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;

        “public authority” means —

            (a)         a Government department, State trading concern, State instrumentality or State public utility;

            (b)         a local government or regional local government; or

            (c)         any other person, whether corporate or not, who or which, under the authority of a written law, administers or carries on for the benefit of the State a social service or public utility;

        “redevelopment authority” means —

            (a)         the East Perth Redevelopment Authority established under the East Perth Redevelopment Act 1991 ; or

            (b)         the Midland Redevelopment Authority established under the Midland Redevelopment Act 1999 ;

        “Riverpark” means the land and waters referred to in section 9, and includes any land the subject of an agreement under section 28 for management as if the land were part of the Riverpark;

        “Riverpark shoreline” has the meaning given to that term in section 12;

        “river protection notice” means a notice referred to in section 91;

        “river protection strategy” means the river protection strategy approved and in force under Part 4;

        “River reserve” means the land and waters referred to in section 11(2);

        “River reserve lessee” means the holder of a lease granted under section 29;

        “Schedule 5 authority” means a person listed in Schedule 5;

        “strategic document” means —

            (a)         the river protection strategy;

            (b)         a management programme; or

            (c)         a document approved under section 55;

        “Trust” means the Swan River Trust established by section 16;

        “Trust website” means an internet website established by the Trust and maintained for the purposes of this Act and other purposes of the Trust;

        “unallocated Crown land” has the meaning given to that term in the Land Administration Act 1997 ;

        “waters” includes the riverbed and subsoil normally covered by waters when at the high water mark;

        "Western Australian Planning Commission" means the body established by the Planning and Development Act 2005 section 7.

        (2)         Deposited plans referred to in this Act are those held by the department of the Public Service that principally assists in the administration of the Transfer of Land Act 1893 .



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