No. 22 of 1914.-Continued by No. 18 of 1920. The Licensing Act Amendment Act, 1914, shall continue in force and effect until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and no longer. restrict or the sale (2.) Any person, whether licensed or unlicensed, who sells, affang for sale or supplies or gives liquor, either alone or mixed No. 22 of 1914.-See Consolidated Licensing Act at end of 3. The Governor may, from time to time, by Proclamation, limit and fix the hours during which licensed premises in any licensing district or any portion thereof to be defined in the Proclamation may be lawfully open for the sale of liquor; and while Power to vary the hours before or after which licensed premises may be open. Power to sell land. Previous sales validated. cural Society's Land. 2. It shall be lawful for the said George Lester and Frederick Thomas Gardner, or the survivor of them, or the legal personal representative of the survivor (all of whom are hereinafter included in the expression "the said trustees") to sell the said land, in such allotments and divisions and in such manner as they shall think expedient, and on production of a transfer from the said trustees to any purchaser of any portion of the said land the Registrar of Titles shall cause such transfer to be duly registered on the title of the said land and shall issue a Certificate of Title to the purchaser for the land comprised in such transfer free from the trusts now affecting such land. 3. Any sale made by the said trustees before the passing of this Act of any portion of the said land shall be deemed to have been made by the authority of this Act, and shall have effect accordingly. By Authority: FRED. WY SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth. AN ACT to amend the Licensing Act, 1911. [Assented to 22nd September, 1914.]. 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 Licensing Act Amendment Act, Short title. 1914, and shall be read as one with the Licensing Act, 1911, here inafter referred to as the principal Act. 2. (1.) The Governor may, from time to time, by Proclamation, Power to restrict or restrict or prohibit the sale, offer for sale, supply, or gift of liquor, prohibit the sale either alone or mixed with water or other liquid, within any licensing district, or any defined portion of any licensing district. (2.) Any person, whether licensed or unlicensed, who sells, or offers for sale, or supplies, or gives liquor, either alone or mixed with water or other liquid, to any other person contrary to any such Proclamation, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty: Two hundred pounds, or imprisonment for twelve months. 3. The Governor may, from time to time, by Proclamation, limit and fix the hours during which licensed premises in any licensing district or any portion thereof to be defined in the Proclamation may be lawfully open for the sale of liquor; and while Power to vary the hours before or after which licensed pre mises may be open. Powers to enforce Power to search for and seize liquor. Power to reduce rent. Duration of Act. while any such Proclamation is in operation section ninety-seven of the principal Act shall have effect in such licensing district or portion thereof, as the case may be, as if the hours so limited and fixed by the Proclamation were inserted in section ninety-seven of the principal Act in place of the hours therein stated. 4. All the powers conferred on police officers by the principal Act, in relation to the illicit sale of liquor either by licensed or unlicensed persons, may be exercised whenever there is reason to suspect or believe that an offence has been committed against this Act. 5. Any police officer may, without warrant, enter and search any unlicensed premises, or detain and search any vehicle, boat or vessel, in or upon which he may have reason to believe liquor to be, in any licensing district or defined portion of a licensing district in which the sale of liquor is prohibited; and may seize all liquor which he then and there finds, and any casks, bottles, or other things in which the liquor is contained, and may carry the same away and keep possession thereof so long as this Act continues in force, unless the same in the meantime are forfeited under the provisions of the principal Act. 6. Any lessee or sub-lessee of licensed premises may require his lessor to abate a proportionate part of the rent reserved by the lease during the operation of any Proclamation under sections two or three of this Act, and, in default of an agreement between the parties, the matter shall be referred to the Chairman of the Licensing Court for the district in which the licensed premises are situated as sole Arbitrator under the Arbitration Act of 1895, and the Arbitrator may, in his discretion, award that the rent to be payable by the lessee or sub-lessee during such period shall be at such reduced rate as the Arbitrator shall, in the circumstances of the case, deem reasonable, and his award shall be binding upon the parties and final. 7. This Act shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of March, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and no longer. By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth. AN ACT to prevent the Introduction into Western Australia of Diseases affecting Plants, to provide for the Eradication of such Diseases and to prevent the Spread thereof, and to amend and consolidate the Law relating to such matters. BE [Assented to 22nd September, 1914.] 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 Plant Diseases Act, 1914, and Short title and shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation. commencement. 2. The Insect Pests Amendment Act, 1898, and the Act 63 Vic- Repeal. toriæ, No. XIV., are hereby repealed. 3. All offices, appointments, regulations, rules, proclamations, Acts of authority certificates, orders, permits, instruments, and generally all acts of done under repealed authority which originated under any enactment repealed by this enactments to conAct and hereby re-enacted with or without modification, and which are tinue in force. |