RIVERS ACT.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
PRELIMINARY.
2. Rivers may be added to the Schedule.
3. Extent of rivers may be defined.
DREDGING.
4. Dredging in river to be licensed.
6. Regulations on dredging licence.
7. Contravening dredging regulations.
8. Contravention of dredging licence may entail cancellation.
STEAM VESSELS.
First Schedule Rivers.
Second Schedule Licences.
Third Schedule Regulations to be endorsed on dredging licences.
Fourth Schedule Fees.
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RIVERS ACT.
Commencement: 1 July, 1907.
An Act relating to rivers.
PRELIMINARY.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) "river" means a river specified in the First Schedule to this Act, or added to the Schedule in the manner provided in section 2;
(b) "steam vessel" includes every description of vessel so constructed as to be propelled otherwise than by sails, oars, paddles or poles;
(c) "vessel" means and includes any ship, boat or canoe, or other description of vessel used in navigation, however propelled.
2. Rivers may be added to the Schedule.
The Minister may, by statutory order, add to the rivers specified in the First Schedule to this Act the name of any other running water; but no such addition shall be deemed to be part of the Schedule until the expiration of two months from the publication of such order in the Gazette.
3. Extent of rivers may be defined.
The Minister may, by statutory order, define the extent of any river to which this Act shall apply, and any part of a river outside the portion so defined shall not be deemed to be a river for the purposes of this Act.
DREDGING.
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