Agricultural Bank Act Amendment Act 1899 (WA)

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ANNO SEXAGESIIVIO TERTIO

VICTORIA', REGINA'.

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No. XXV.

AN ACT to amend the Agricultural Bank

Act, 1894.

[Assented to, 6th December, ",s399.]

lative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council awl Legis-

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

la THIS Act may be cited as the Agricultural Bank Act short title,

Amendment Act, 1699, and shall be read with the Agricultural

Bank Act, 1894, hereinafter called the principal Act.

2. EVERY person applying for an advance under the principal Applicant for loan to

Act, or in the case of joint or co-owners one of them, shall make a make statutory

statutory declaration indorsed on the application, in the form given I stott,',41::'at he	l
in the Schedule hereto or to the like effect ; such declaration may be made and subscribed as well before any agent appointed by the Minister under the Land Act, 1898, as before any person by law authorised to administer an oath, and if made and subscribed before such agent shall have the same force and effect as if made and subscribed before a Justice of the Peace.

63° VICTORI2E, No. 25.

Agricultural Bank Act-Amendment.

EVERY person who has given security by mortgage to the the security, and to the satisfaction of the manager, keep in good and tenantable repair all fences, fixtures, and improvements thereon ; and if, after the expiration of two month's written notice by the manager to such mortgagor, the mortgagor has not complied with the requirements of this section, the like consequences shall follow as are provided by the principal Act in case any half-yearly payment of principal or interest is unpaid for two months after the time appointed for payment thereof.

3.

Nortgagor to keep

fences, etc., in	manager under the principal Act shall, during the subsistence of
repair.

4.     SECTION five of the principal Act is amended by striking

Amendment of

55 Viet., No. 21,

out, in the sixth line thereof, the words " One hundred thousand

sec. 5.

pounds," and inserting the words " Two hundred thousand pounds"

in lieu thereof.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

GERARD SMITH, Governor.

Section 2. SCHEDULE.

Statutory Declaration to be indorsed on Font of Application.

I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am the sole owner [or

I and are the owners] of the lands mentioned in the within

application and offered as security for the advance requested from the Agricultural

Bank, and that no other person has any estate, right, title or interest therein whatsoever, either at kw or in equity ; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, No. 12, intituled "An Ordinance for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof."

Made and subscribed at

this day of 19

[Signature of Declarant.]

Before me

[Signature and description of person before whom the Declaration is taken.]

By Authority : RICHARD PETTIER, Government Printer, Perth.