9. Section nineteen of the principal Act is hereby Amendment of amended by the addition of the following proviso:

Provided further, that if in the opinion of an officer of police or of an officer of the local authority it shall be impracticable to capture any dog as aforesaid, and such dog is not wearing a collar round its neck with the registration disc attached thereto, such officer may shoot such dog or cause such dog to be shot without seizing or keeping the same.

section 19.

section 20.

10. Section twenty of the principal Act is amended by Amendment of striking out the words "registered," in line two, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "usual or last known," and is further amended by striking out the word "registered," in line five, and inserting the word "such.”

11. Section twenty-two of the principal Act is amended by Amendment of inserting after the word "destroy," in line five, the words section 22. "without cruelty by some speedy means.'

section 29.

12. Section twenty-nine of the principal Act is hereby Amendment of amended by the excision of the words "lawfully keep one unregistered male dog," and the substitution of the words "register one male dog free of charge, the collar and dise for which shall be supplied free of charge by the registering authority," and by the excision of the word "unregistered,' in the second paragraph, and the insertion after the word "excess," in such paragraph, of the words "except such of the said dogs as are duly registered."

section 31.

13. Section thirty-one of the principal Act is hereby Amendment of amended by the excision of the words "a period exceeding twenty-one days."

section 35.

14. Section thirty-five of the principal Act is hereby Amendment of amended by the addition of the following words:-"and such regulations may impose a penalty not exceeding five pounds. for any breach thereof."

Second Schedule.

15. The Second Schedule is amended by substituting Amendment of the words "thirtieth day of June" for "thirty-first day of December," in forms A and B.

Amendment of
Third Schedule.

Principal Act to be reprinted as amended.

16. The third and fourth items in the Third Schedule to the principal Act are hereby repealed, and the schedule is further amended by inserting the words "thirty-first day of December" in lieu of the words "thirtieth day of June."

17. 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 the Parliaments, and all necessary references to this Act shall be made in the margin.

AGRICULTURAL LANDS PURCHASE.

13° GEO. V., No. XXV.

Short title.

Amendment of
Section 4.

No. 2 of 1923.

AN ACT to further amend the Agricultural Lands
Purchase Act, 1909.

B

[Assented to 22nd February, 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 Agricultural Lands Purchase Amendment Act, 1922 (No. 2), and shall be read as one with the Agricultural Lands Purchase Act, 1909, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2. Section four of the principal Act (as amended by the Act No. 15 of 1922) is hereby further amended, by substituting for the words "twelve hundred thousand pounds" the words "fifteen hundred thousand pounds."

BUSSELTON-MARGARET RIVER
RAILWAY DEVIATION.

13° GEO. V., No. XXVI.

No. 3 of 1923.

AN ACT to authorise a Deviation of Busselton-Margaret
River Railway.

[Assented to 22nd February, 1923.]

BE it enacted the advice and consent of the Legislative

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by

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 Act, 1922.

construct.

2. It shall be lawful to construct and maintain a railway, Authority to 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 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 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

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Purchase money to be determined under Public

Works Act, 1902.

Governor may

etc., to be made.

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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 aforeIsaid 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 increased 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.

6. Before the purchase money is paid for any land comrequire surrender, pulsorily purchased under the authority of this Act, the 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.

7. All such land acquired under paragraph (a) of section 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 incorporated herewith.

SCHEDULE.

BUSSELTON-MARGARET RIVER RAILWAY DEVIATION.

Description of Line of Railway.

Commencing at a point on the surveyed centre line for the extension of the Boyanup-Busselton Railway to Margaret River, in or near Government Reserve No. 7686, Sussex District, and proceeding thence in a generally Southerly direction for about 5%1⁄2 miles and terminating at a point in or near Sussex Location No. 1011, and junctioning with the Flinders Bay-Margaret River Railway, as more particularly delineated and coloured red on map marked P.W.D., W.A., 22174, deposited pursuant to 2 Edward VII., No. 47, Section 96. Total length about 5% miles.

NORTHAMPTON RESERVES.

13 GEO. V., No. XXVII.

No. 4 of 1923.

AN ACT to enable Reserve A 504 (Northampton Lot 75) to be granted to the Northampton Hospital Committee, with power to sell and apply the proceeds to the improvement of Reserve A 16476 (Northampton Lot 313).

[Assented to 22nd February, 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 Northampton Reserves short title. Act, 1922.

application of

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant to the Power to sell and Northampton Hospital Committee Reserve 504 (North- proceeds. ampton Lot 75) for an estate in fee simple, with power to the grantee to sell and transfer the same, subject to the proceeds of sale being applied to the improvement of Reserve 16476 (Northampton Lot 313).