Conditional Purchases Validation Act 1883 No 10a (NSW)

No. XVIII.

An Act to declare valid Conditional Purchases made through Agents in certain cases. [27th April, 1883.]

the "Crown Lands Alienation Act of 18G1" are invalid by reason of the	WH E R E A S it lias been held that certain conditional Purchases under the thirteenth nineteenth and twenty-first sections of
applications having been tendered through agents for the applicants And whereas many such conditional purchases have been made from time to time and dealt with as A*alid and it is expedient that the same should be declared valid in law Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—
1. Notwithstanding any provision of the " Lands Acts Amend­ ment Act of 1875" requiring an application for the conditional purchase of Crown Land to be tendered by the applicant in person every con­ ditional purchase for mining purposes made under the thirteenth and nineteenth sections of the said first-mentioned Act and every additional conditional purchase made under the twenty-first section thereof in virtue of a conditional purchase lawfully made under the thirteenth or fourteenth sections of the same shall subject to the several other pro­ visions of the said Acts hereafter be and be held to be and to have been a valid conditional purchase Provided that nothing herein shall affect any action or suit or any cause of action which shall have arisen before the passing hereof or any conditional purchase already declared to be void by the authority of the Minister under the said Acts.