Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts The Minister and also
the local authority may deepen, widen, straighten, and otherwise improve, any
river, and may, without limiting the generality of the foregoing power remove
from any river, stream, or watercourse, or from the bed thereof, any earth or
stone, and all weeds, refuse, and other growth, and all driftwood, logs,
trees, branches, and other timber which may be lodged in the bed or against
the banks thereof and be calculated to impede the free flow of water therein
in its natural or deepened, widened, straightened, or otherwise improved,
channel, and may dispose of the same respectively towards recouping the cost
of such removal: And for the purpose aforesaid the Minister and every such
local authority shall, by its servants, have the free right of ingress or
egress, and regress on any land on the banks of any such river, stream, or
watercourse.
[Section 93 amended: No. 48 of 1953 s. 7.]