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ANZAC DAY.

14° GEO. V., No. XIV.

Short title.

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"Anzac Day inserted in certain

Sec. 2 (3).

of the

No. 35 of 1923.

AN ACT relating to the Observance of Anzac Day.

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[Assented to 15th December, 1923.]

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 Anzac Day Act, 1923.

2. The words "Anzac Day (the twenty-fifth day of Licensing Act, 1911. April)" are hereby inserted after the word "Sunday" in See Q. 1921, No. 18, sections thirty-five, one hundred and twenty-two, one hundred and twenty-four, and one hundred and twenty-six, and in subsections (2) and (3) of section one hundred and sixtyseven of the Licensing Act, 1911, and the words "or Anzac Day (the twenty-fifth day of April)" are inserted after the word "Sunday" in section two hundred and five of the said Act, as reprinted with amendments in the appendix to the 1922-1923 sessional volume of the statutes.

Race meetings on
Anzac Day pro-
hibited.

See Q. 1921, No. 13,
Sec. 8 (4).

3. (1.) No license shall be granted under the Racing Restriction Act, 1917, for any race meeting to be held on Anzac Day.

Any such license granted contrary to this Act shall be void.

(2.) It shall be unlawful for any racing club or person to hold or conduct any race meeting on Anzac Day.

For any contravention of the provisions of this subsection, the secretary and all the members of the committee or executive body of such racing club, and any other person so offending, shall jointly and severally be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

4. In this Act

"Anzac Day" means the twenty-fifth day of April in each

year.
"Racing club" means any club, company, or association,
incorporated or otherwise, formed for the purpose of
promoting horse-racing or trotting racing.

"Race meeting" means any meeting of persons for the
purpose of horse-racing or trotting racing.

Interpretation.

BUSSELTON-MARGARET RIVER RAIL-
WAY DEVIATION No. 2.

14° GEO. V., No. XV.

No. 36 of 1923.

AN ACT to authorise a Deviation (No. 2) of Busselton-
Margaret River Railway.

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[Assented to 15th December, 1923.]

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 Busselton-Margaret River Short title. Railway Deviation No. 2 Act, 1923.

Authority to construct.

Deviation.

Power to Governor
to compulsorily
purchase land a
within 15 miles'
of railway.

Purchase money to be determined under Public

Works Act, 1902.

No. 36.]

No. 2.

[1923. 2. It shall be lawful to construct and maintain a railway, with all necessary, proper, and usual works and conveniences in connection therewith, along the line described in the Schedule to this Act.

3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Public Works Act, 1902, it shall be lawful for the Minister for Works to deviate from the line as described in such Schedule to the extent of one-quarter of a mile on either side thereof for that portion of the line which is outside the limit of deviation already authorised by the Busselton-Margaret River Railway Deviation Act, 1922.

4. At any time after the passing of this Act, and until the expiration of twelve months from the publication of notice in the Government Gazette declaring the railway open for traffic, the Governor may

(a) With the object of encouraging the cultivation and settlement of the land compulsorily purchase any land in parcels of not less than one thousand acres, each parcel being the property of one person or two or more persons, jointly or in common, and situated within fifteen miles of any part of the line of the railway, and which land is certified by the Minister for Lands as suitable for closer agricultural settlement;

(b) Compulsorily purchase any land situated as aforesaid for townsites:

Provided that no land shall be compulsorily purchased under paragraph (a) of this section until the Land Purchase Board has favourably reported thereon.

5. On the determination by the Governor from time to time to exercise the power conferred by the last preceding section, any land within such defined limits may be taken under the Public Works Act, 1902, and the provisions of that Act shall apply, and the amount of the purchase money shall be determined as compensation is determined under that Act:

Provided that, on the exercise of any such power, or on the acquisition by the Governor within the said period of land situated as aforesaid for any work within the meaning of the Public Works Act, 1902, no regard shall be had to any in

No. 2.

[No. 36.

1923.]
creased value occasioned by the railway, and the purchase
money shall be assessed at the probable and reasonable price
which the land, with any improvements thereon, or the estate
or interest of the claimant therein, might have been expected
to realise if offered for sale at the date the land was taken,
and if the railway had not been constructed or authorised.

require surrender,

6. Before the purchase money is paid for any land com- Governor may pulsorily purchased under the authority of this Act, the etc., to be made. Governor may require the claimant to execute a surrender, conveyance, or transfer of the land to the Crown, or as the Governor may direct, free from all encumbrances.

46 of 1909.

7. All such land acquired under paragraph (a) of section Application of No. four shall be dealt with under the provisions of the Agricultural Lands Purchase Act, 1909, and the purchase money may be paid out of any moneys authorised to be raised and expended by that Act, or as therein prescribed.

8. Subject as aforesaid, the Public Works Act, 1902, is Incorporation of incorporated herewith.

2 Edw. VII.,

No. 47.

SCHEDULE.

BUSSELTON-MARGARET RIVER RAILWAY DEVIATION (No. 2).
Description of Line of Railway.

Commencing at a point on the surveyed centre line of the BusseltonMargaret River Railway Deviation (No. 1), in or near Sussex Location No. 1005, and proceeding thence in a generally Southerly direction for about 24 miles, and terminating at a point in or near Sussex Location No. 1036, and junctioning at that point with the Flinders Bay-Margaret River Railway, and as more particularly delineated and coloured red on map marked P.W.D., W.A., 22879, deposited pursuant to 2 Edward VII., No. 47, Section 96. Total length about 24 miles.

No. 37.]

No. 1.

[1923.

FLINDERS BAY-MARGARET

RIVER

RAILWAY DEVIATION, No. 1.

14° GEO. V., No. XVI.

Short title.

Authority to construct.

Deviation.

Power to Governor
to compulsorily
purchase land
within 15 miles
of railway.

No. 37 of 1923.

AN ACT to authorise a Deviation (No. 1) of Flinders Bay-
Margaret River Railway.

[Assented to 15th December, 1923.]

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 Flinders Bay-Margaret River Railway Deviation No. 1 Act, 1923.

2. It shall be lawful to construct and maintain a railway, with all necessary, proper, and usual works and conveniences in connection therewith, along the line described in the Schedule to this Act.

3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Public Works Act, 1902, it shall be lawful for the Minister for Works to deviate from the line as described in such Schedule to the extent of one-quarter of a mile on either side thereof.

4. At any time after the passing of this Act, and until the expiration of twelve months from the publication of notice in

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