Amendment of 1316, 1917, s. 6 Consequential amend ments. Repeal of 1341, 1918, 8. 10 Consequential amendment. Exemption of soldiers' homes from rates 1316, 1917,8.5 (part), 1918, s. 6. Advances for Homes Act Further Amendment Act.-1921. (7) Any advance for the erection of a dwelling-house may be made by instalments as the work progresses. (8) Every advance shall be for the term of fifty years, and shall bear interest at the rate of Five Pounds per centum per annum, and shall be repayable by equal monthly instalments of principal and interest of Nine Shillings and One Penny per centum, being such instalments as are sufficient to repay the same in such term at such rate of interest. Section 17 of the Advances for Homes Act, 1910, shall not apply in respect of such instalments: Provided that in cases where any house with respect to which an advance is applied for is, or is to be, built of ordinary wood and iron, or of wood, or where, in the opinion of the Board, the proper protection of the security of the Board as mortgagee requires a shorter term, the term shall be such as is fixed by the Board, and the amount of the equal monthly instalments shall be such as is sufficient to repay the advance in such term at the rate of interest aforesaid. (9) Any person to whom an advance has been made by the Board under the provisions of this Act shall not be entitled to make to the Board any further application for an advance under this Act. 7. Section 6 of the Advances for Homes Act Further Amendment Act, 1917, is amended (a) by substituting in subsection (1) thereof for the passage "any such person as is referred to in subdivision (a) of the definition of 'returned soldier' contained in section 4 of the amending Act of 1916 (as amended by this Act)" the words "any Australian soldier," and (b) by substituting in subsection (4) thereof for the passage "such a person as is referred to in subdivision (c) of subsection (5) of section 4 of the amending Act of 1916," the passage "such a person as is referred to in subdivision (c) of the definition of female dependant' contained in section 3 of the Advances for Homes Act Further Amendment Act, 1921." 8. Section 10 of the Advances for Homes Act Further Amendment Act, 1918, is repealed. 9. (1) Any land with respect to which an advance has been made under the Advances for Homes Act Further Amendment Act, 1916, to any of the persons mentioned in subsection (3) hereof, as amended by 1341,' shall, for the period of five years next after the date of the making of such advance or until the payment of all moneys due to the Board in respect of such advance (whichever is the shorter period), be exempt from State land tax and from water and sewer rates, and from all other rates, taxes, and impositions whatsoever, except municipal and district council rates. (2) All Advances for Homes Act Further Amendment Act.-1921. (2) All municipal or district council rates payable in respect of 1341, 1918, s. 7. any such land for such period as aforesaid shall be paid by the Treasurer on behalf of the owner or occupier for the time being of such land out of moneys provided by Parliament for the purposes any of this Act and the Acts with which this Act is incorporated. No 1408, 1919, s. 7 fine, poundage, or other penalty shall be payable in respect of (part). municipal or district council rates payable by the Treasurer by reason of this subsection. (3) The provisions of this section shall apply only where the advance is made to one of the following persons, and only whilst such person continues to be the owner or occupier of the land with respect to which the advance was made: 1. An Australian soldier (a) who has served outside Australia in the war which (b) wherever he may have served, whose discharge from (c) wherever he may have served, who, in the opinion of and whose discharge from service was not due to 11. One of the parents of an Australian soldier who has hereto- III. Any person who proves, to the satisfaction of the Board, that she has acted as the foster-mother of any Australian soldier who has heretofore died or hereafter dies from wounds inflicted, accident occurring, or disease contracted whilst on service in the war which commenced in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen; and that she so acted prior to such Australian soldier enlisting or being appointed for or employed on active service in the said war; and that she has not received and will not receive any payment or other consideration from any person in respect of her having so acted as such foster-mother: Provided always that such Australian soldier, parent, or person was not, at the time of his application for the advance, in receipt of an income exceeding Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds per annum, (4) The Presumption as to death on active service. Advances to nurses for hospitals, &c. Cf. Comm., 35, 1920, s. 6. Act retrospective to 15th February, 1921. Advances for Homes Act Further Amendment Act.—1921. (4) The provisions of this section shall not apply in respect of any land or building with respect to which an advance is made under section 11 of this Act. 10. For the purposes of this Act and of the Acts with which this Act is incorporated, a person shall be presumed to have died whilst on service in the war which commenced in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen if he has been reported to have so died, or if he has been reported "missing" or "missing; believed dead,” and no further report with respect to him has been received since such report was received. 11. (1) Any person who, during the continuance of the war which commenced in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen (a) was a member of the Army Medical Corps Nursing Service accepted or appointed by the Director-General of Medical Services for service outside Australia; or (b) was a member of the Army Medical Corps Nursing Service of any part of the King's Dominions, other than the Commonwealth, and proves to the satisfaction of the Board that she had, before her appointment to that service, resided in Australia, may apply to the Board for an advance for the purpose of enabling such person to erect a building to be used as a hospital, sanatorium, or nursing home, or to purchase such a building, together with the land on which it is erected. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act and of the Acts with which this Act is incorporated, the Board may make advances to any such person for any of the purposes aforesaid as if the building was to be used by the applicant as a home for herself and her family, and all the provisions of this Act and of the Acts with which this Act is incorporated shall apply to and in respect of such advance accordingly. (3) Any advance under this section may be made to two or more persons jointly, and in such a case the total advances to such persons may exceed Seven Hundred Pounds, but shall at no time exceed the sum of the amounts which could have been advanced if the advances had been made to each of such persons separately. 12. This Act shall have the same effect as if it had been passed, and had come into force, on the fifteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-one. In the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill. G. J. R. MURRAY, Deputy Governor. Adelaide: By authority, R. E. E. ROGERS, Government Printer, North Terrace. An Act to authorise the Use of a certain portion of Colley [Assented to, November 23rd, 1921.] HEREAS by Land Grant (for Public Reserve) Register Book, Preamble. volume CCXV., folio 236, certain pieces of land situated in the Town of Glenelg, Hundred of Noarlunga, County of Adelaide (including the piece of land delineated and shown on the plan in the Schedule hereto and therein hatched in black, which said piece of land is portion of the reserve at Glenelg known as "Colley Reserve"), were granted unto the Corporation of the Town of Glenelg, together with all timber, materials, and appurtenances, to hold unto the said Corporation and their successors in trust to permit and suffer the said pieces of land to be used at all times as places for the recreation and amusement of the inhabitants of the Corporation of the Town of Glenelg, and for no other purpose whatsoever: And whereas it is now desired to authorise and permit the use of the piece of land delineated and shown on the plan in the Schedule hereto, and therein hatched in black, as a site for a memorial to soldiers and sailors who died in the war which commenced in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of the State of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Parliament thereof, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the "Glenelg Soldiers' Memorial Short title. Site Act, 1921." 2. (1) Notwithstanding Portion of Colley Reserve may be used as site for soldiers' memorial. Glenelg Soldiers' Memorial Site Act.-1921. 2. (1) Notwithstanding any Act or law to the contrary, and notwithstanding anything contained in any grant of the land hereinafter mentioned (a) it shall be lawful for the Corporation of the Town of Glenelg to use, or to permit and suffer to be used, the piece of land situated in the Town of Glenelg, Hundred of Noarlunga, County of Adelaide, being portion of the reserve at Glenelg known as "Colley Reserve," which said piece of land is more particularly delineated and shown on the plan in the Schedule hereto, and therein hatched in black, as a site for a memorial, or part of a memorial, in honor of, or to perpetuate the memory of, soldiers and sailors who served in the war which commenced in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, or who died in such war; and (b) from the commencement of the erection of such memorial the Corporation of the Town of Glenelg, and the Council thereof, shall not be bound to permit and suffer the said piece of land to be used at all times as a place for the recreation and amusement of the inhabitants of the Municipality of the said Corporation. (2) Such memorial may take such form as the Council of the said Corporation may determine. (3) The said memorial, when erected, shall vest in the said Corporation and shall be maintained by the Council of the said Corporation out of its own moneys. Any rents or other income derived from the said memorial shall be payable to the said Council and shall form part of the revenue of the said Corporation. In the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to PLAN. Adelaide: By authority, R. E. E. ROGERS, Government Printer, North Terrace. |