No. 1199 of 1915.

Terms and conditions which lease to be granted.

Term and renewal.

Port Pirie Drill Hall Site Act.-1921.

subject, however, to the right of the lessee under the said lease to remove the buildings erected on the land comprised in the said lease as therein provided.

(3) Upon such granting, the land comprised in such lease shall again become dedicated as park lands and shall be regarded and dealt with in all respects as lands dedicated as park lands under the Crown Lands Act, 1915.

4. The lease of the said piece of land shall contain a condition that the said piece of land shall be used only for the purpose for which it is leased, subject to such terms, conditions, covenants, and provisos as may be mutually agreed upon.

5. The lease of the said piece of land shall be for a term of twenty-one years, and may from time to time be renewed for any term not exceeding twenty-one years at any one time, on such terms, conditions, covenants, and provisos as may be mutually agreed upon.

In the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to
this Bill.
W. E. G. A. WEIGALL, Governor.

THE SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED SITE FOR DRILL HALL, PORT
PIRIE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

All that piece or parcel of land being that portion of the park lands adjacent to the Town of Port Pirie, in the Hundred of Pirie, bounded as follows:-Commencing at the intersection of a line being the production south-westerly of the south-eastern side of Mary Elie Street with the eastern side of road east of suburban section 31; thence southerly along said side of road for 9093 links; thence north-easterly at a north-eastern angle of 61° 37′ for 1,632 links; thence north-westerly at right angles for 8 chains to the production of Mary Elie Street aforesaid; and thence south-westerly along said production for 12 chains to the point of commencement.

PLAN.

Adelaide: By authority, R. E. E. ROGERS, Government Printer, North Terrace.

An Act to provide for the Audit of the Public Accounts. [Assented to, November 23rd, 1921.]

BE

E it 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 "Audit Act, 1921."

Short title.

2. This Act shall come into force on a date to be fixed by procla- Commencement of mation.

Act.

3. The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule are hereby repealed. Repeal of Acts.

Auditor-General.

Commissioner of

substituted.

4. The office of Commissioner of Audit is hereby abolished, and Title of all the powers, rights, privileges, duties, and functions of the Com- Audit abolished and missioner of Audit by virtue of any Act or otherwise shall vest in Auditor-General and shall be exercised, possessed, and performed by the AuditorGeneral appointed under this Act, and every reference in any Act to the Commissioner of Audit shall be deemed a reference to the Auditor-General appointed under this Act.

5. (1) The Governor may appoint some person to be Auditor- Appointment of General.

Auditor-General.
Cf. Act 241, 1882,

(2) The Commissioner of Audit holding office at the commence- s. 2 (part). ment of this Act shall be deemed to have been appointed AuditorGeneral under this Act.

General.

6. (1) The Auditor-General shall receive a salary at the rate of Salary of Auditor. Eight Hundred Pounds per annum.

(2) Such

Cf. ibid., s. 6 (part).

Incapacity for other positions.

Cf. ibid., s. 6. (part).

Vacating office.

How removed from

office or suspended. Cf. ibid., s. 2 (part).

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(2) Such salary shall be paid by the Treasurer out of the General Revenue on the warrant of the Governor, which warrant the Governor is hereby authorised and required to issue from time to time.

7. (1) The Auditor-General shall not, during his continuance in such office, be capable of being a member of the Executive Council of the State or of the Commonwealth, or of either House of the Parliament of the State or of the Commonwealth.

(2) The Auditor-General shall be deemed to have vacated his office

(a) if, except with the consent of the Governor, he directly or indirectly engages in any paid employment outside the duties of his office, or in any trade or business except as a member of any registered company; or

(b) if he is adjudicated an insolvent or executes a statutory deed of assignment for the benefit of his creditors, or if he compounds with his creditors for less than Twenty Shillings in the Pound; or

(c) if he is convicted of felony or misdemeanor; or

(d) if, except on leave granted by the Governor, he absents
himself from duty for fourteen consecutive days or for
twenty-eight days in any period of twelve months; or
(e) if he resigns his office by writing under his hand addressed
to the Governor and such resignation is accepted by the
Governor.

8. (1) The Auditor-General shall hold office during good behaviour, and shall not be removable from office unless an address praying for his removal is presented to the Governor by both Houses of Parliament during one session, or by one House during one session and by the other House during the next succeeding session, which sessions, however, need not be both during the same Parliament.

(2) The Governor may at any time suspend the Auditor-Generai from his office for incapacity, incompetence, or misbehaviour; and whenever the Auditor-General is so suspended a full statement of the grounds of such suspension shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after such suspension, if Parliament is in session and actually sitting, and if Parliament is not in session or not actually sitting, then within fourteen days after the commencement of the next session of Parliament.

(3) If, within one month after the day when such statement is laid before it and during the same session, the House of Assembly or the Legislative Council does not present a petition to the Governor praying for the removal from office of the Auditor-General so suspended, such Auditor-General shall be restored to his office, without any loss of salary in respect of the period of his suspension.