Auctioneers' Amendment Act 1879 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO TERTIO

VICTORIA, BEGIN E

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No. XX.

AN ACT to amend " The Auctioneers' Act,

1873."

[Assented to, 19th September, 1879.]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend " The Auctioneers' Act,

Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice W 1873:" Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of 37 Vic., No. 3.

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—

1 THE prohibition contained in the seventh section of the said Prohibition of night auc-

Act shall not apply to persons selling freehold or leasehold lands or	tions not to apply to sales
tenements.	of land.

2 AN Auctioneer shall, without further payment, have, in Auctioneers to have the

addition to the rights and privileges conferred by the said Act, all	privileges of agallon license.
the rights and privileges of a person holding a gallon license as
mentioned in the ninth section of the Wines, Beer, and Spirit Sale
Act, 1872, for the premises in or on which a bona fide Auction	36 Vic., No. 5.
of other goods and chattels of a person, other than the Auctioneer,

43° VICTORIA, No. 20.

The Auctioneers Amendment Act, 1879.

shall be held. Provided, nevertheless, that before an Auctioneer can or may exercise the rights and privileges hereby conferred, or any of them, he shall first obtain the written license of a Police or Resident Magistrate for that purpose, which said license the said magistrate may grant or refuse, as he may deem advisable; and every such license shall be for one day's sale only, and shall state the premises upon which the auction is to be held; and the rights and privileges hereby conferred shall extend only to the day and pre- mises mentioned in the said license.

What sales of liquor are 3 THE rights and privileges given by the last preceding

not authorised. section shall not authorise the sale of liquor on the Auctioneer's own premises, nor of liquor his own property, or held by him for sale or • return, or of any other than liquor the property of the persons on whose premises the Auction at which such liquor shall be sold, shall be held.

4 THE short title of this Act shall be " The Auctioneers'

short Title. o

Amendment Act, 1879."

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

this Act.

H. ST. GEORGE ORD, Governor.

By Authority: RICHARD PETIMR, Government Printer, Perth.