PART XI.

Cancellation.

Aboriginal reserves may be leased.

Sec 117, Crown Lands Act, 1888, amended.

Encouragement of meat export.

Regulations.

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person concerned, rescind, and annul such forfeiture, and revive the forfeited lease or agreement upon such terms as he shall think fit. All rescissions, annulments, and revivals heretofore made by the Minister, and which would have been lawful if made after the passing of this Act, are hereby declared to be valid.

88. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in clause 95 in the principal Act, the Governor, at the expiration of three months after the due date for the payment of the rent, if the rent be unpaid, may cancel the lease.

89. Leases may be granted for any term not exceeding twentyone years at such rent and on such terms as the Minister may think fit of any aboriginal reserves in blocks not exceeding one thousand square miles. Every lease may be subject to a right of renewal so long as it can be shown to the satisfaction of the Minister that the lands therein described are required for and applied to the use and entire benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Northern Territory.

90. For the encouragement of meat preserving and boiling down and other modes of treating stock for export the Minister may grant perpetual leases of any lands not exceeding an area of one thousand acres, subject to the condition that if within two years after the grant of the lease the lessee shall have spent at least Two Pounds per acre in the erection on such lands of works suitable for the purpose intended to be encouraged the land shall be held free of rent, and subject also to such other terms and conditions as may be prescribed.

91. The power of making regulations and imposing penalties conferred by the principal Act shall extend to all such regulations as to the Governor shall appear necessary or advisable for regulating all proceedings, matters, and things arising under and consistent with this Act not herein expressly provided for, and otherwise for fully and effectually carrying out and giving effect to the purposes and powers of this Act, and guarding against evasions and violations thereof.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill.

TENNYSON, Governor.

THE

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THE SCHEDULES REFERRED TO.

SCHEDULE A.

Section 24.

altered.

Pastoral leases shall contain a condition that the lessee shall not be entitled to See Sch. A, 585/93, possession of the land until he shall have paid the first year's rent, and paid or arranged pursuant to this Act for payment of the price for the improvements (if any).

Covenants by the lessee :

(a) To pay the rent annually in advance:

(b) To stock, within three years, the land leased, with sheep in the proportion of See 60 of 501/90. at least five head, or with cattle in the proportion of at least one head, for every mile leased, and to keep the same so stocked, and before the end of the seventh year to increase the stocking to at least ten head of sheep, or two head of cattle, per mile, and to keep the same so stocked during the remainder of the term, and so that the stocking with sheep and cattle combined shall be sufficient if the requisite number are kept, one head of cattle being computed as equal to five head of sheep; and in all cases, upon being required thereunto, to furnish the Minister with true particulars of the number of sheep and cattle with which the leased land is stocked:

(c) That the lessee will not at any time during the last three years of the term of the lease, or of any renewal thereof, over-stock the land or any part thereof, or keep thereon any excessive number of sheep, cattle, horses, or other stock, which, in the opinion of the Minister, would have the effect of depreciating the ordinary capacity of the land for depasturing stock:

(d) To keep the land free of vermin, to the satisfaction of the Minister, during the currency of the lease and any renewal thereof:

(e) Not to assign or sublet without the written consent of the Minister, but so that such consent shall not be capriciously withheld:

(f) Not to erect or suffer brush fences on the land leased:

(g) Not to cut timber, except for erections, fencing, or firewood, without the licence of the Minister:

(h) Not to obstruct or interfere with any public roads, paths, or ways, or the use thereof by any person:

(i) To make and furnish all such statements and returns as may be required by any rule or law for the time being in force:

(J) To observe and comply with the regulations for the time being in force under this Act:

(k) That any moneys deducted from the outgoing lessee of the land and paid to See 14 of 642/95. the lessee for compensation for loss or depreciation of improvements shall

be expended in replacing or making good such improvements, unless the
lessee shall have paid the purchase-money thereof in full:

And, in addition to such covenants

(7) An exception or reservation in favor of the Crown, and all persons authorised of all minerals, metals, gems, precious stones, coal, and mineral oils together with all necessary rights of access, search, procuration, and removal, and all incidental rights and powers:

(m) An unrestricted right for the Crown and all persons authorised to enter and view the demised premises, and view the state and condition thereof, and to serve notice on the lessee of any wants of reparation, &c. :

See 94 of 501,90.

BEED See section 47, Act 642/95.

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(n) A condition that, if rent be not paid on the due date, a penalty of ten per cent. per annum on the amount of the rent unpaid may, if the Minister think fit, be added:

(0) A proviso that, if rent shall be in arrear for more than three months after due date, or if there has been a breach or non-performance of any of the lessee's covenants or conditions, the Governor may cancel the lease, subject to the provisions of this Act or the principal Act:

(p) Provisions for the valuation or resumption of the demised land, or premises, or any part thereof, for fixing the rent upon valuation, and for compensation of the lessee on resumption, in accordance with the Acts and regulations for the time being on that behalf :

(9) Such leases shall also contain all such exceptions and reservations in favor of the Crown, the Minister, Land Boards, Road Boards, and other authorities, the aborigines of the colony, and other persons, necessary or proper for giving effect to any Act or regulation for the time being in force, or not inconsistent therewith, as may be prescribed, or as the Minister may require:

(r) The lessee shall be allowed to surrender the lease absolutely on such terms as may be prescribed by the regulations, or as may be determined by the

Minister:

(s) All the above to be expressed in each form as may be prescribed, or as may be approved by the Minister.

SCHEDULE B.

Scale for Payment of Purchase-money for Improvements, the Property of the Crown, where Special Arrangement made, pursuant to Section 40, showing the Annual Payments in Advance, including Interest at 5 per cent. per Annum, to be made in respect of every £100 of the Purchase-money.

An Act to provide for the Registration of Firms.

[Assented to, December 21st, 1899.]

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of

BE

the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Registration of Firms Act, Short title. 1899."

Act.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, Commencement of one thousand nine hundred, which date is hereinafter referred to as the commencement of this Act.

3. In this Act, unless some other meaning is clearly intended- Interpretation.

"Firm" shall mean any two or more persons lawfully associated

for the purpose of carrying on any business, but shall not
include a company incorporated by or in pursuance of any
Act of Parliament, Letters Patent, or Royal Charter:
"Firm-name" shall mean the name or style under which any
business is carried on, whether in partnership or otherwise :
"Prescribed" shall mean prescribed by regulations made in
pursuance of this Act:

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Registrar" shall mean the Registrar of Companies:

"Usual name" shall include a signature habitually used for
business purposes.

Firms and persons to be registered.

Manner and particu lars of registration.

Periodical registration.

Exemptions.

Particulars for registration.

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4. From and after the commencement of this Act

(a) Every firm carrying on business or having any place of business in South Australia under a firm-name which

does not consist of the full or the usual names of all the partners or all the acting partners without any addition: (b) Every person carrying on business or having any place of business in South Australia under any firm-name consisting of or containing any name or addition other than the full or the usual name of that person:

shall register, in the manner directed by this Act, the name under which their or his business is or is intended to be carried on.

5. Registration under this Act shall be effected by sending by post or delivering to the Registrar a statement in writing containing the following particulars :—

(a) The firm-name:

(b) The nature of the business:

(c) The place or places of the business:

(d) The full name, usual residence, and other occupation (if any) of the person or persons carrying on or intending to carry on the business:

(e) If the business is commenced or any new place of business is established after the commencement of this Act, the date of the commencement of the business or establishment of the place of business.

6. Registrations under this Act shall continue for the term of five years. Prior to the termination of that period and each succeeding period of five years new registrations shall be effected.

7. Persons who do not publicly notify or advertise themselves as carrying on any specified business at any specified place of business in South Australia, and who merely contract to perform specified work for or supply specified materials to any particular person within any period not exceceding twelve months from the time of so contracting, shall be exempt from registration under this Act.

8. (1) The persons carrying on or intending to carry on any business under a firm-name required to be registered as aforesaid shall write and sign or shall acknowledge a statement of the particulars required for registration, if in South Australia, in the presence of a Justice of the Peace, commissioner for taking affidavits, or solicitor, and, if elsewhere than in South Australia, in the presence of a Justice of the Peace or of a British consul or notary public, by whom respectively such signatures or acknowledgments shall be attested.

(2) The