Claremont and Perth Road Districts Rates Act 1923 (WA)

No. 14.] Claremont and Perth Road Districts Rates. [1923.

CLAREMONT AND PERTH ROAD

DISTRICTS RATES.

13° GEO. V., No. XXXVIL

No. 14 of 1923.

AN ACT to validate certain Rates, and the appropriation of certain Loan Rates, made and levied by the Clare- mont and Perth Road Boards respectively.

[Assented to 22nd February, 1923.]

B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand 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 Claremont and Perth Road

Districts Rates Act, 1923.

Validation of 2. All rates (including uniform and local rates) made and latleaterteinont levied or purporting to have been made and levied by the

Claremont Road Board for the financial years ending 30th day of June, 1921, and 30th day of June, 1922, respectively, shall be deemed to have been lawfully made and levied; and all things necessary to be done in and towards the authorising, making, and levying of such rates shall be deemed to have been duly performed, notwithstanding any failure to comply with any of the provisions of the Road Districts Act, 1919, relating thereto ; and the said rates, so far as the Board had power to make and levy the same if the said provision bad been duly complied with, may be recovered by the Board accordingly, as if the provisions of the said Act had been in all respects duly complied with.

Validation of	3. (14 Notwithstanding anything contained in the Roads
appropriation

by Perth Road	Act, 1911, and the Road Districts Act, 1919, the appropriation
Board of certain
loan rates.	and expenditure by the Perth Road Board of the sum of £9,005 9s. (being the excess of the proceeds of loan rates from the

1923.] Claremont and Perth Road Districts Rates. [No. 14.

1st day of May, 1912, to the 30th day, of June, 1922, in respect of loans numbered 1 to 10, inclusive, after providing for the payment of interest and the formation of a sinking fund), for general purposes, or for any of the purposes of the Board, instead of the payment of interest and sinking fund, is hereby validated, authorised, and confirmed.

(2.) No action or other legal proceedings whatsoever shall be instituted in any court of law for or on account of the appropriation and expenditure of the said sum of £9,005 9s., or any part thereof, for or on account of the general or other purposes of the Perth Road Board, against Perth Road Board or any person who is or has been a member of such Board, or in the employment of the Board.