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The Irrigation and Reclaimed Lands Act.-1914.

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An Act to amend "The Chaffey
"The Chaffey Brothers Amendment
Act, 1902," to further amend "The Renmark
Irrigation Trusts Acts," and to amend "The
Renmark Irrigation Trusts Acts Amendment
Act, 1907."

BE

[Assented to, November 26th, 1914.]

E it Enacted by the Governor of the State of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Parliament thereof, as follows:

Preliminary Provisions.

1. (1) This Act may be cited alone as "The Renmark Irrigation Short titles. Trusts Acts Further Amendment Act, 1914."

(2) "The Renmark Irrigation Trusts Acts," "The Renmark

Irrigation Trusts Acts Amendment Act, 1907," and this Act, may No. 933 of 1907. be cited together as "The Renmark Irrigation Trusts Acts, 1893 to

1914."

2. This Act is incorporated with the other Acts mentioned in Incorporation with section 1, and those Acts and this Act shall be read as one Act.

other Acts.

3. In this Act, except where some other meaning is clearly Interpretation. intended,

"Agreement" means an agreement entered into under this Act

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containing a covenant to purchase land :

Board" means the Allotment Board constituted by this Act:

"Chairman" means Chairman of the Board:

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No. 578 of 1893.

Repeal of section 4 of
Act 806 of 1902-
Lands dedicated for
commonage.

Constitution and appointment of Allotment Board.

Nomination of members of Board.

No. 578 of 1893.

Appointment

without nomination on failure to nominate.

Casual vacancies.

The Renmark Irrigation Trusts Acts Further Amendment Act.-1914.

"Minister" means the Minister of the Crown to whom the administration of this Act is, for the time being, committed by the Governor :

"State" means the State of South Australia :

"Trust" means the Renmark Irrigation Trust No. 1, constituted by "The Renmark Irrigation Trusts Act, 1893."

4. Section 4 of "The Chaffey Brothers Amendment Act, 1902,” is hereby repealed.

The Renmark Allotment Board.

5. (1) A Board, to be called "The Renmark Allotment Board," is hereby constituted.

(2) Such Board shall consist of three members, who shall, subject to section 7, be appointed by the Governor after nomination as provided by section 6.

(3) When a vacancy occurs on the Board the Governor shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy. If the member whose seat has become vacant was nominated by the Minister, the person to fill the vacancy shall be appointed after nomination by the Minister, and if by the Trust, after nomination by the Trust.

(4) Notice of every appointment shall be published in the Government Gazette.

6. (1) The Trust shall nominate two persons who

(a) are ratepayers in respect of land within the Renmark Irrigation District No. 1, and

(b) are, under section 25 of "The Renmark Irrigation Trusts Act, 1893," qualified to be members of the Trust,

to be members of the Board.

(2) The Minister shall nominate a member of the Land Board to be a member of the Board.

7. If in any case the Minister or the Trust fails to give notice in writing to the clerk of the Executive Council of his or its nomination within two months after being requested in writing by the said clerk to make such nomination, the Governor may appoint a member without nomination; and the member so appointed shall be deemed to have been appointed after such nomination.

8. The seat of a member shall become vacant on

(a) his death, lunacy, or insolvency, or his compounding with his creditors for less than Twenty Shillings in the Pound, or his being convicted of an indictable offence; or

(b) his resignation by notice in writing posted or delivered to the Chairman, or, in the case of the Chairman, to the Minister; or

(c) his

The Renmark Irrigation Trusts Acts Further Amendment Act.-1914.

(c) his absence from three consecutive meetings of the Board without the leave of the Board.

Proceedings and Functions of the Boara.

9. (1) No act or proceeding of the Board shall be invalid or illegal in consequence only of the number of the members of the Board not being complete at the time of such act or proceeding.

(2) All acts and proceedings of the Board shall, notwithstanding the discovery of any defect in the appointment of any member thereof, or that any member was disqualified or disentitled to act, be as valid as if such member had been duly appointed and was qualified and entitled to be and to act, and had acted, as a member of the Board, and as if the Board had been properly and fully constituted.

Defects in appointproceedings of Board.

ment not to invalidate

10. The Board shall meet whenever required so to do by the When Board to meet. Minister, by notice in writing, delivered or sent by post addressed Cf. 830, 1903, s. 15. to the several members of the Board.

11. Any two members of the Board shall form a quorum, and Quorum. may exercise all or any of the powers and authorities vested in the Ibid., s. 16 (part) Board.

12. (1) The member of the Board nominated by the Minister Chairman. shall be the Chairman of the Board.

(2) The Chairman shall have a casting as well as a deliberative

vote.

Ibid., s. 16 (part).

meetings.
Ibid., s. 17 (part).

13. (1) The Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Board: Who to preside at Provided that in the case of his absence from a meeting, the members present may elect one of their number to preside at such meeting during such absence.

(2) Any member so presiding shall, for the purposes of such meeting, have all the powers and authorities of the Chairman.

14. No member of the Board shall sit at any meeting of the Board whilst any application by himself, or on his behalf, or in which he is pecuniarily interested, or by or on behalf of any partner or relative of such member, for an agreement or lease under this Act, is being heard, considered, or dealt with.

Member not to sit at meeting to consider his partner or

application by himself

or

relative.
Ibid. s. 18.

section 14 void.

15. The decision of the Board granting any application by Allotment in any member of the Board, or by any partner or relative of contravention of any member, and any allotment made in consequence of such Cf. ibid., s. 20. decision, shall, if the provisions of section 14 were not observed with respect to such application, be absolutely void, except as against any person, not being a partner or relative of the member of the Board who failed to observe such provisions, who has purchased any block so allotted bona fide for value and without notice of such non-observance.

16. In

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