16. If at the commencement of this Act any licensed premises Apportionment of are held under lease the lessee shall be allowed by the lessor a prorent and premium. portionate reduction of the rent of the premises, in the same ratio to the full rent as the reduction in hours bears to the time during which the premises might have been lawfully open for the sale of liquor except for this Act, and a like proportionate return of a part of the premium (if any) paid by the lessee to the lessor, apportioned to the period during which this Act is in force. Provided that if any lessee or lessor considers himself unduly penalised by the incidence of this section he may require the question of adjustment of rent or rent and premium to be submitted to arbitration under the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1895, and by an award to be made thereunder the rent or rent and premium to be payable by the lessee or sub-lessee during and in respect of such period shall be at such reduced rate as in the circumstances of the case may be deemed reasonable, and the award shall be binding upon the parties and final. Provided that this section- (a) shall only apply to premises for which a publican's general license, an hotel license, a way-side house license, an Australian wine and beer license, a railway refreshment-room license, or a railway restaurant car license is held; and (b) shall not apply to premises not licensed at the commencement of the lease, unless the amount of rent or premium (if any) was fixed in view of a prospective license. In this section of the Act "Lessee" includes the mesne lessee and an assignee of a lease and a sub-lessee, and also a mortgagee of a lease or sub-lease. "Lessor" includes a mesne lessor and the person for the time being entitled to the rent of the premises, and also a mortgagee of the lessor or of the land comprised in the lease. 17. The Governor may make all such regulations as may be Regulations. necessary or convenient for giving effect to this Act, and for carry ing out its object and purpose. 18. This Act shall not affect the operation of the Licensing Act No. 22 of 1914 Act Amendment Act, 1914. not affected. 19. This Act shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of Duration of Act. December, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and no longer, unless both Houses of Parliament otherwise determine. Provided that if a resolution is passed by both Houses of Parliament to the effect that this Act shall continue for a further period expressed in such resolution, this Act shall continue in force accordingly. By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth. AN ACT to appropriate and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and from Moneys to Credit of the Trust Fund and the General Loan Fund and from the Public Account certain sums to make good the supplies granted for the Service of the Year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and to supplement grants made by the present Parliament during its last Session in adjustment of the Vote" Advance to Treasurer, 1914-15," for charges during the Year ended the 30th day of June, 1915. [Assented to 8th December, 1915.] MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, E, Your Majesty's Most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Preamble Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the Supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the Sums hereinafter mentioned, and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted: And be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council Application of Appropriation of supplies. Schedule A. Advance to Schedules B to G. Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows (that is to say): 1. There shall and may be issued and applied, for or towards making good the supply granted to His Majesty for the services of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen, the following sums, that is to say: From the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sum of Two Million Six Hundred and Eighty Thousand Four Hundred and Thirtysix Pounds. From moneys to credit of the Trust Fund, the sum of One Hundred and Forty-four Thousand Two Hundred and Eighteen Pounds. From moneys to credit of the General Loan Fund, the sum of One Million Five Hundred and Fifty-three Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-one Pounds. From the Public Account for Advance to Treasurer the sum of One Hundred Thousand Pounds. 2. (1.) All sums granted by this Act, and the Acts mentioned in Schedule A to this Act, towards making good the Supply granted to His Majesty, that is to say: From the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sum of Three Million Eight Hundred and Eighty-nine Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-six Pounds. From moneys to credit of the Trust Fund the sum of One Hundred and Forty-four Thousand Two Hundred and Eighteen Pounds. From moneys to credit of the General Loan Fund the sum of Two Million One Hundred and Three Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-one Pounds. From the Public Account for Advance to Treasurer the sum of Four Hundred Thousand Pounds; and (2.) All sums granted by this Act to supplement grants in confirmation of the expenditure from the vote, "Advance to Treasurer, 1914-15," for charges during the year ended the 30th day of June, 1915, that is to say: From the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sum of Two Hundred and Twenty-nine Thousand Three Hundred and Forty Pounds Three Shillings and Five pence. From the General Loan Fund the sum of One Hundred and Forty-seven Thousand Three Hundred and Eight Pounds Seven Shillings and Eleven pence, are appropriated and shall be deemed to have been appropriated for the purposes and services expressed in Schedules B, C, D, E, F and G. SCHEDULE A. |