Auctioneers Act Amendment Act 1932 (WA)

No. 53.] Auctioneers. [1932.

AUCTIONEERS.

23° GEO. V., No. LIII.

No. 53 of 1932.

AN ACT to amend the Auctioneers Act, 1921.

[Assented to 30th December, 1932.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Auctioneers Act Amend- ment Act, 1932, and shall be read as one with the Auctioneers Act, 1921 (No. 29 of 1921), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Amendment of s. 2. Section five of the principal Act is amended, as fol-

lows :-

(a) by inserting at the beginning of subsection (3) the

words "subject as hereinafter provided";

(b)

by adding to subsection (3) a proviso as follows:—

Provided that, where the applicant is already

the holder of a current license under this Act, and

is applying for a similar license to take effect as

from the expiration of the term of his said current

license, the applicant, instead of publishing a copy

of his application in a newspaper as aforesaid,

shall deliver such copy to the clerk of the magis-

trate, who shall post the same on some conspicuous

part of the outside of the court house, and keep

the same so posted until the application is heard.

1932.] Auctioneers. [No. 53.

3. Section seven of the principal Act is amended by Al- Amendment of s. 7.

serting after the word "paid" in line seven the words "in accordance with the provisions of section nine of this Act."

4. Section nine of the principal Act is amended by adding Amendment of s.9.

thereto further provisos, as follows:

Provided further-

(i)    that, where a license for any year is granted at any time prior to the first day of July in that year, only one moiety of the fee prescribed and payable for such license shall be payable on the issue of such license, and the remaining moiety of such fee shall be payable and paid on or before the first day of July in such year; and

(ii)    if the holder of a license referred to in paragraph (1) of this proviso fails to pay such remaining moiety of the fee prescribed and payable in re- spect of such license on or before the said first day of July, the license shall be deemed to be can- celled, and shall be null and void as from and after the said date, without, however, relieving the licensee from. liability to pay such remaining moiety, which shall be recoverable from him at the suit of the Treasurer as a debt due to the Crown in any court of competent jurisdiction.

5. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited lietttatragegenalisal

as the Auctioneers Act, 1921-1932.