The Acts of the Parliament of Western Australia

SUPPLY, 1924-5.

15° GEO. V., No. I.

No. 1 of 1924.

AN ACT to apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sum of Eight Hundred and Five Thousand Pounds, and from Moneys to Credit of the General Loan Fund Seven Hundred and Forty-five Thousand Pounds, and from Moneys to Credit of the Government Property Sales Fund Ten Thousand Five Hundred Pounds, and from Moneys to Credit of the Land Improvement Loan Fund Three Thousand Pounds to the Service of the Year ending 30th June, 1925, and to apply out of the Public Account the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Pounds for the purposes of temporary Advances to be made by the Colonial Treasurer.

[Assented to 12th August, 1924.]

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

WE,

E, Your Majesty's Most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, Preamble. the Members of the 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 sum hereinafter mentioned, and do, therefore, most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted: And be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :

tion of £1,863,500.

1. There shall and may be issued and applied for or issue and applicatowards making good the supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the year from 1st July, 1924, to 30th June, 1925, the Sum of Eight Hundred and Five Thousand

Sums available for purposes voted by the Legislative Assembly.

Pounds out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and from Moneys to Credit of the General Loan Fund Seven Hundred and Forty-five Thousand Pounds; and from Moneys to Credit of the Government Property Sales Fund Ten Thousand Five Hundred Pounds; and from Moneys to credit of the Land Improvement Loan Fund Three Thousand Pounds; and there shall and may be issued and applied out of the Public Account the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Pounds for the purposes of temporary Advances to be made by the Colonial Treasurer, and the Treasurer of Western Australia is hereby authorised and empowered to issue and apply the Moneys authorised to be issued and applied, and to make temporary Advances accordingly.

2. The said sums shall be available to satisfy the warrants under the hand of the Governor, under the provisions of the law now in force, in respect of any Services voted by the Legislative Assembly during the financial year ending 30th June, 1925, or issued for such purposes; and all expenditure for the purposes of temporary Advances as aforesaid shall be recouped by charging the specific appropriation of Parliament applicable thereto, or by recovery thereof from the Governments or persons on whose account the advances may have been made.

UNCLAIMED MONEYS.

15° GEO. V., No. II.

No. 2 of 1924.

AN ACT to amend the Unclaimed Moneys Act, 1912.

[Assented to 3rd October, 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 Unclaimed Moneys Act Short title. Amendment Act, 1924, and shall be read as one with the Unclaimed Moneys Act, 1912, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2. The principal Act is amended as follows:

(1.) Section two thereof is amended by omitting paragraph (f) in the interpretation of the word "company,' that is to say

(f) the Government Savings Bank.

(2.) The words "of minors," in section ten, are omitted.

(3.) Sections thirty-two and thirty-three of the Government Savings Bank Act, 1906, are re-enacted, and shall have effect as if those sections had not been repealed by section twelve of the principal Act.

Amendment of principal Act, No. 34 of 1912.

ROAD DISTRICTS RATES.

15° GEO. V., No. III.

Short title.

Extension of time

for registration of transfers.

No. 3 of 1924.

AN ACT to enable Transfers of Land sold under an Order for Sale pursuant to Division (6) of Part VI. of the Road Districts Act, 1919, to be registered notwithstanding the expiration of twelve months from the registration of the Order.

[Assented to 3rd October, 1924.]

1. This Act may be cited as the Road Districts Rates Act, 1924, and shall be read as one with the Road Districts Act, 1919.

2. Whenever an order for the sale of land for default in payment of rates is or has been duly registered under Division (6) of Part VI. of the Road Districts Act, 1919, and the land is or has been duly sold pursuant to such order, but a transfer of the land to the purchaser is or was not registered within twelve months from the date of the order, it shall be lawful and shall be deemed to have been lawful for the Registrar of Titles to register such transfer after the expiration of such period of twelve months if there has been no change in the proprietorship of such land or encumbrance registered after the expiration of such period of twelve months.

1924.]

Bunbury Road District Rates Validation. [No. 4.

BUNBURY

ROAD DISTRICT RATES

VALIDATION.

15° GEO. V., No. IV.

No. 4 of 1924.

AN ACT to validate Rates imposed or purporting to have been imposed by the Bunbury Road Board.

[Assented to 5th November, 1924.]

BE the ice 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 Bunbury Road District Short title. Rates Validation Act, 1924.

Rates.

2. (1) All rates heretofore imposed by the Bunbury Validation of Road Board, or purporting or appearing from the minute book of the said Board to have been so imposed, shal be deemed to have been lawfully imposed, and all things necessary for imposing such rates or render ng the same recoverable shall be deemed to have been duly performed, notwithstanding any failure to comply with any of the relative provisions of the Road Districts Act, 1919, or any prior Act, and the sad rates shall be recoverable accordingly by the Board as if the relative enactments had been complied with in all respects.

(2) This section shall extend to any rates purporting or appearing to have been imposed at a meeting of the Board, notwithstanding that no quorum may have been present on the occasion.

(3) This section shall also extend to the rates for the financial year ending the 30th June, 1924, which shall be deemed to have been duly imposed in the month of July, 1923, notwithstanding that no meeting of the Board was held for the purpose during that month.

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