Cemeteries Amendment Act 1911 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

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GEORGII QUINT I REGIS,

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No. 22 of 1911.

AN ACT to amend " The Cemeteries Act,

1897."

[Assented to 16th February, 1911.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Par-B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

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

1.    This Act may be cited as the Cemeteries Amendment Act, Short Title.

1911, and shall be read as one with the Cemeteries Act, 1897, here-

inafter referred to as "the principal Act."

2.    In this Act "Year" means the financial year beginning on Interpre Hon.

the first day of July and ending on the thirtieth day of June.

3. If during any year the trustees of any cemetery shall re- Sections 31, 32,

ceive no loan, subsidy or subvention (except fees for burials) from

33, and 34 of

Cemeteries Act,

the Government of the State of Western Australia, then, during

1897, not to

apply to trustees

the ensuing year, sections thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three and

of unsubsidised

thirty-four of the principal Act shall not apply to such trustees,

cemeteries.

and they may, at any time after the completion of the audit of the account required to be kept by section thirty of the principal Act, determine the amount which, during such ensuing year, shall be applied, out of moneys in their hands as shown by the said account,

(a.) To the management, laying out or improvement of the

cemetery and the burial of poor persons:

1911, No. 22.] Cemeteries. [1 GEO. V.

(b.) In payment to the reserve fund hereinafter mentioned; and (c.) In payment to any Road Board or Municipal Council of

such contribution (if any) towards the cost of making and maintaining roads in the neighbourhood of the cemetery as the trustees shall in their absolute discretion judge reasonable ;

and every amount so determined shall be applied Accordingly.

Copy of trustees'

annual account 4. In addition to complying with the said section thirty, such

to be sent to

trustees shall transmit to the Minister, before the thirtieth day

Minister.

of September in such ensuing year, a true copy of the abstract of

the said account prepared pursuant to the said section thirty.

Penalty. 5.

Upon failure of the trustees to comply with any provision of the said section thirty or of section four of this Act, each one of them shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding Twenty pounds.

Reserve fund. 6. (1.) The trustees of any cemetery may establish a reserve

fund, which shall consist of contributions to be made as herein-

before provided.

See WA., 64 Viet.,	(2.) The said fund may be invested on any securities on (3.) Such fund and the income thereof shall be applicable for the general benefit of the cemetery as the trustees may, in their discretion, from time to time determine; but no part of such fund or income shall be applied to any purpose which has not previously been specially approved by the Governor.
No. 17, s. 5.	which trustees are entitled to invest trust moneys.
Act retrospective.	7. This Act shall have effect, so far as may be, as if the pro- visions of sections two, three, four, five and six had originally formed part of the principal Act.

By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.