Functions of the Board
16 Functions of the Board
Subject to this Act and to any directions of the Minister, the Board is hereby charged with the administration and application of the Fund for such purposes connected with the provision of amenities for coal miners and the improvement of the physical, cultural and social well‑being of coal miners, and the education, recreation and conditions of living of coal miners, as the Board may consider desirable.
The Board may, with the prior approval of the Minister and upon such terms and conditions as the Minister approves, apply money standing to the credit of the Fund for or towards —
the operation of a home for the aged in Collie operated by Riverview Residence (Incorporated); and
the provision of such other amenities other than those to which subsection (1) refers, for persons including persons who are not coal miners, as the Board considers desirable.
The Minister may give to the Board directions of a general character with respect to the exercise and performance of its functions and the Board shall give effect to any such directions.
The Board is to consult with the owners of coal mines before applying money standing to the credit of the subsection (1a) account.
In this section —
subsection (1a) account means the separate account forming part of the Fund to which —
moneys transferred under section 10(3) of the Coal Mines Legislation Amendment and Revival Act 1998; and
sums paid under section 6(1a),
are to be credited.
[Section 16 amended: No. 3 of 1968 s. 2; No. 59 of 1998 s. 6; No. 17 of 2006 s. 11.]
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