AN ACT to further amend the Dividend Duties Act, 1902. [Assented to 24th December, 1918.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by BE and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Dividend Duties Act Short title. Amendment Act, 1918 (No. 2), and shall be read as one with the Dividend Duties Act, 1902, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, and its amendments. 2. A subsection is hereby inserted in section seven of the Mining principal Act, as follows: (8.) The profits made in any year on and after the 1st day of July, 1917, by a mining company, shall be assessed, after allowing as a deduction the cost actually incurred during the year by the company for labour and materials employed in development work, as prescribed, including the cost incurred on and after the 1st day of July, 1918, in testing and working mines held under an option of purchase. development, 3. A section is hereby inserted in the principal Act, and Interest on shall have effect as follows: : 37. Interest on Western Australian Government debentures, inscribed stock, and treasury bills or bonds received on and after the 1st day of July, 1917, by any company, shall be exempt from duty under this Act. Provided that such exemption shall not affect the duty payable under section eight by insurance companies on the amount of premiums received. Western stocks. 58 Reprinting Act with amend ments. No. 40.] Dividend Duties Amendment (No. 2). [1918. 4. All copies of the principal Act hereafter printed by the Government Printer shall be printed as amended by this Act, under the supervision of the Clerk of Parliaments, and references to this Act shall be made in the margin. PERMANENT RESERVE (COTTESLOE). 9° GEO. V., No. XXXI. Short title Excision of portion of reserve. No. 1 of 1919. AN ACT to excise portion of Permanent Reserve A^1208. BE [Assented to 3rd January, 1919.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Permanent Reserve (Cottesloe) Act, 1918. 2. That portion described in the Schedule hereto of Reserve AA1208 (Cottesloe) is excised therefrom, and shall cease to be dedicated to the purposes for which the reserve was made, and may be granted by the Governor to the Cottesloe Municipality. SCHEDULE. All that piece of land, containing two roods, being portion of Cottesloe Lot 117, bounded on the North by the Southern boundary of Cottesloe Lot 164, measuring 224 links, and on the West by 223.3 links of the Eastern side of Broome Street; the opposite sides being parallel and equal. UNIK OF ME VERMIN. 9° GEO. V., No. XXXII. No. 2 of 1919. AN ACT relating to Vermin Fencing, and the Destruc- [Assented to 3rd January, 1919.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: PART I.-PRELIMINARY. 1. This Act may be cited as the Vermin Act, 1918. It is short title and divided into parts, as follows: PART PART II. CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION, Ss. 8-13. I. PRELIMINARY, SS. 1-7. PART IV. PART PART BOARDS OF VERMIN DISTRICTS, SS. 15-52. VI.-FENCING, SS. 74-91. PART VII-DESTRUCTION OF VERMIN, Ss. 92-100. PART VIII.-MISCELLANEOUS, ss. 101-133. divisions.: Act. 2. This Act shall apply to all the south-west portion of Application of the State situated west of the No. 1 rabbit-proof fence and south of the rabbit-proof fence running from Gum Creek Well westward to Bluff Point, but shall not apply to any other part of the State. Schedule. 3. The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act Repeal. First shall cease to have effect in that portion of the State to which this Act applies: Provided that (a) All districts; and (b) All boards and all elections and appointments of members thereof; and Interpretation. 1902, No. 84, s. 3. 1909, No. 10, s. 2. (c) All proclamations, orders, by-laws, regulations, resolutions, certificates, and documents; and (d) All offices and appointments of officers; and (e) All other matters and things, which at the commencement of this Act are in existence, force, or operation under or for the purposes of the said Acts shall, except in so far as is inconsistent with this Act, subsist and enure for the purposes of this Act, and shall continue as if this Act had been in force when they respectively originated and they had originated thereunder. 4. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires- "Chairman" means the chairman of a board, and in- "District" means a Vermin District; "Financial year" means the financial year as prescribed; "Government fence" means the barrier fence No. 1, erected from Starvation Boat Harbour to Ninetymile Beach, the fence No. 2, from Point Ann to a point North-West of Yalgoo, thence running East and joining fence No. 1 at Gum Creek; the fence No. 3, running West from fence No. 2, eleven miles and sixty chains North-West of Yalgoo to Bluff Point, and any other vermin fences or rabbit-proof fences erected out of public moneys. "Holding" means any land or collection of lands of an owner constituting or worked as one property, whether held, used or occupied under pastoral lease, or in fee simple, or under conditional purchase lease, or other lease, or as a homestead farm, or as a public reserve or otherwise, and whether under the same title or different titles or under titles of different kinds; "Inspector" means an inspector appointed by the Governor or a board, and includes chief inspector; "Manager" means the resident manager of a holding of which the owner does not reside in the district; "Member" means a member of a board; "Minister" means the Minister for Agriculture or such other responsible minister of the Crown as is for the time being charged with the administration of this Act; "Occupier" means the person in actual occupation of a holding (including a manager), or if there is no person in actual occupation, the person entitled to possession thereof; "Owner" as applied to a holding means the person in possession thereof as (a) the holder of a legal or equitable estate of freehold; or (b) the holder of an estate legal or equitable under (c) the holder of a homestead farm; or If there is no such person in possession the term means the person who is entitled to possession in any of the aforesaid capacities except that of mortgagee. Receipt of the rents and profits is equivalent to possession for the purposes of this definition. "Rabbit-proof fence" means (a) a substantial fence such as is described in Part II. of the Second Schedule to this Act; or (b) any other substantial rabbit-proof fence approved of in writing by the Minister, or the chief inspector. "Prescribed" means prescribed by this Act or any regulation thereunder; "Public reserve" means any land excepted from sale by the Governor under Part III. of the Land Act, 1898, or any land regulation, and vested in, held by, or placed under the control of any person or body corporate or unincorporate (not being an official or agency of the Crown); |