This Act may be cited as the Quarries Amendment Act 1975, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Quarries Act 1944 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act shall come into force on a date to be fixed by Order in Council.

Section 2(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of the definition of the term “quarry” (as substituted by section 2(1)(a) of the Quarries Amendment Act 1951), the words “fifty feet” and “fifteen feet”, and substituting respectively the words “15 metres” and “4.5 metres”.

Section 2(2) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2(2) of the Quarries Amendment Act 1951) is hereby amended by omitting the words “fifteen feet”, and substituting the words “4.5 metres”.

Section 16(1)(b) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “one hundred yards”, and substituting the words “90 metres”.

Section 27(3) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “fifteen feet”, and substituting the words “4.5 metres”.