Bills of Sale Amendment Act 1932 (WA)

No. 42.] Bills of Sale. [1932.

BILLS OF SALE.

23° GEO. V., No. XLII.

No. 42 of 1932.

AN ACT to amend section eighteen of the Bills of Sale

Amendment Act, 1906, and for other purposes relative thereto.

[Assented to 30th December, 1932.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in

BE 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 Bills of Sale Amendment Act, 1932, and shall be read as one with the Bills of Sale Act, 1899, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, and also with the Bills of Sale Amendment Act, 1906.

Amendment of 2. Section eighteen of the Bills of Sale Amendment Act,

of Sale Amend- (No. 13 of 1906), as amended by section fifteen of the

meat Act, 1906. Bills of Sale Act Amendment Act, 1914 (No. 24 of 1914), is

hereby further amended by deleting therefrom the words "on any station" in line three, and also the whole of the second paragraph commencing with the words "The term 'station' " and ending with the words "land so held."

validation of

3. Subject as hereinafter provided, where a bill of sale of wool and stock combined or of wool or of stock separately, which was not a bill of sale to which section eighteen of the Bills of Sale Amendment Act, 1906, applied, had prior to the commencement of this Act been registered without notice, and such bill of sale is still subsisting and appears in the register books as a registered bill of sale at the commencement of this

certain bills of

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Act, then such bill of sale shall be deemed to be duly registered and to be as valid and effectual as it would have been if, prior to the original registration thereof, notice of intention to register the same had been given in accordance with the pro- visions of the said last-mentioned Act and the registration thereof had been effected in due course thereafter.

Provided that this Act shall not prejudice the claim:—

(1) of any purchaser who before the passing of this Act had acquired a right to rely on section twenty-seven of the principal Act; or the claim of

(ii)    any official receiver, trustee, or liquidator of the estate of the grantor, or any assignee or trustee acting under any statutory deed of assignment for the benefit of the creditors of the grantor who before the passing of this Act had acquired a right to rely on subsection one of section twenty-five of the principal Act as amended by the Bills of Sale Act Amendment Act, 1925; or the claim of

(iii)    any sheriff, bailiff, or other person seizing any chattels comprised in a bill of sale in the execu- tion of the process of any court or any person on whose behalf such process was issued who before the passing of this Act had acquired a right to rely on subsection two of section twenty-five of the principal Act as amended by the said Bills of Sale Act Amendment Act, 1925.