Charitable Collections Act Amendment Act 1949 (WA)

No. 2.] Charitable Collections. [1949.

CHARITABLE COLLECTIONS.

13° Geo. VI., No. LXXXVIII.

No. 2 of 1949.

AN ACT to amend the Charitable Collections Act,

1946-1947.

[Assented to 24th August, 1949.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Short title. 1.

This Act may be cited as the Charitable Collections Act Amendment Act, 1949, and shall be read as one with the Charitable Collections Act, 1946 (No. 29 of 1946, as amended by No. 55 of 1947), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Citation of

principal Act	2.	The principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
as amended

by this Act be cited as the Charitable Collections Act, 1946-1949.

Amendment 3.

Section twelve of the principal Act is amended by adding the following subsections :-

of s. 12.

(4) Where a condition of a license requires that before being made, any proposed contract or arrangement, relating to payment from moneys in hand or to be obtained for any charitable purpose. shall be submitted to and approved. by the Minister

(a) any contract or arrangement made after the coming into operation of the Chari- table Collections Act Amendment Act, 1949, without having been so submitted and approved shall, subject to the pro- visions of the next succeeding paragraph, be void;

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(b) any money received by any person in purported pursuance of a contract or arrangement which is void by virtue of the provisions of the last preceding sub- section shall be recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due from that person at the suit of the Minis- ter or a person authorised by him to sue.

(5) Where money is recovered pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (b) of the last preceding subsection, it shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be appropriated to the charitable purpose for which it was obtained, but if the cost of recovery has not been recovered, that cost may first be deducted.

4. Section twenty of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word "him" in subsection (1), line three, the words "or an officer authorised by the Minister."	Amendment
of s. 20.