Reprinting of principal Act and amendments. 3. 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 Parlia ments, and a reference to this Act shall be made in the margin. The short title of the principal Act as so reprinted shall be "The Mining Development Act, 19021924." Short title. Power to write off. AN ACT to authorise the Industries Assistance Board, with the approval of the Governor, to write off advances under Part 2 of the Industries Assistance Act, 1915; to enable the Governor to extend such power to the Trustees of the Agricultural Bank; to continue the operation of the first mentioned Act, and for other relative purposes. [Assented to 31st December, 1924.] 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 Industries Assistance Act Amendment Act, 1924. 2. (1) It shall be lawful for the Industries Assistance Board to write off so much of the indebtedness of any debtor to the Board for advances under Part 2 of the Industries Assistance Act, 1915, as, with the approval of the Governor, the Board may think fit, upon the debtor executing in favour of the Board a legal mortgage and bill of sale by way of security of the assets of the debtor to which the statutory charge under the Industries Assistance Act, 1915, for the time being extends (subject only to prior registered encumbrances, if any), to secure the repayment of the reduced amount of such indebtedness, with interest, at such time and on such conditions as, subject to the regulations, the Board may think fit. (2.) The Board may take from any debtor, as aforesaid, in lieu of such statutory charge, a legal mortgage and bill of sale of the assets of the debtor to which the statutory charge for the time being extends, notwithstanding that no portion of the indebtedness is written off under the authority of subsection (1) of this section. (3.) On the registration of such substituted securities under the provisions of this Act, the statutory charge created by the Industries Assistance Act, 1915, shall cease to be operative: Provided that the principal money payable under and secured by such substituted securities shall be deemed a contemporaneous advance within the meaning of the Bills of Sale Act, 1899. 3. The Governor may, by Order in Council, extend the authority conferred by this Act on the Industries Assistance Board, to the Trustees of the Agricultural Bank in respect to advances made by the Trustees under the provisions of the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act, 1918, or otherwise. 4. Section fifteen of the Industries Assistance Act Amendment Act, 1917, as amended by the Industries Assistance Act Continuance Act, 1923, is hereby further amended by omitting the figures "1925" and inserting the figures" 1926" in place thereof. NORSEMAN-SALMON GUMS RAILWAY. 15° GEO. V., No. XXVII. No. 27 of 1924. AN ACT to authorise the Construction of a Railway from [Assented to 31st December, 1924.] 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 Norseman-Salmon short title. Gums Railway Act, 1924. Authority to construct. Deviation. Power to Governor Purchase money to be determined under Public Works Act, 1902. 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 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 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 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. require surrender, 6. Before the purchase money is paid for any land Governor may compulsorily purchased under the authority of this Act, etc., to be made. 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. No. 46 of 1909. 7. All such lands acquired under paragraph (a) of section Application of 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, Incorporation of is incorporated herewith. 2 Edw. VII., No. 47. SCHEDULE. NORSEMAN-SALMON GUMS RAILWAY. Description of Line of Railway. Commencing at a point in or near Norseman Station Yard, on the Coolgardie-Norseman Railway, and proceeding thence in a generally Southerly direction for about seven miles ; thence in a generally SouthWesterly direction for about seven miles; thence in a generally SouthSouth-Westerly direction for about twenty miles; thence in a generally Southerly direction for about eight miles; thence in a generally SouthSouth-Easterly direction for about seventeen miles, and terminating at a point at or near the North end of Salmon Gums Station Yard, on the Esperance-Northwards Railway Extension, as more particularly delineated and coloured red on map marked P.W.D., W.A., 23457, deposited pursuant to 2 Edward VII., No. 47, Section 96. Total length, about 59 miles. PEARLING. 15° GEO. V., No. XXVIII. Short title. Amendment of sec._5. Amendment of BE No. 28 of 1924. AN ACT to amend the Pearling Act, 1912: [Assented to 31st December, 1924.] 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 Pearling Act Amendment Act, 1924. 2. Section five of the Pearling Act, 1912 (hereinafter called "the principal Act") is hereby amended by the insertion, after the definition of "ship," of a definition as follows: 3. 'Special Inspector' means the Chief Pearling Inspector or any person appointed by the Governor to be a special inspector for the purposes of this Act." Section thirty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended I. By the excision of the word "acquires" in the first line, and the substitution of the words "shall have or acquire"; II. By the addition to the section of six subsections, as follows:"(4) If any unqualified person shall acquire or hold any interest in any such ship as aforesaid or the right to share in the results or proceeds of any such pearling as aforesaid, or if any person shall be party or privy to the acquisition or holding by any unqualified person of any such interest or share as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of an offence. |