Crown Lands (Amendment) Act 1932 (NSW)

An Act to provide for relief to settlers whose holdings have become unproductive by reason of flood, fire, drought, storm or tempest; for the funding of arrears; for reduction of rents and interest in certain cases; for payment of interest only in certain cases in lieu of instalments of purchase money; to extend the period of payment for Crown improvements; to provide that the title conferred by certain leases shall be a lease in perpetuity; to extend certain concessions to certain holders and purchasers of Crown lands; and for purposes connected therewith.

1Name of Act

This Act may be cited as the Crown Lands (Amendment) Act 1932.

1ARelationship with other Acts

This Act shall be read and construed with the Wentworth Irrigation Act 1890 and the Hay Irrigation Act 1902.

2–18

(Repealed)

19Waiver or remission of interest and rent—irrigation holdings(1)

Where the holder of land of any tenure under the Wentworth Irrigation Act, or the Hay Irrigation Act 1902, or any of those enactments as amended by subsequent Acts, has been adversely affected by flood, fire, drought, storm, or tempest the holder may apply to the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation in the manner and within the time prescribed by regulations made under any of such Acts for relief under this section.

(2)

The Water Administration Ministerial Corporation shall refer every such application to the special land board or local land board, as the case may be, and if the board so recommends may postpone payment of the whole or part of any instalment payable in respect of any purchase of land or Crown improvements made under or by the operation of any of the Acts referred to in subsection (1), or may postpone, waive, or remit payment of the whole or part of:

• (a)

  the interest on any debt incurred under or by operation of any of the Acts referred to in subsection (1) in respect of any purchase of land or of Crown improvements,

• (b)

  the annual rental under any lease from the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation made under or by operation of any of such Acts.

(3)

Any such postponement, waiver, or remission may be made unconditionally or subject to such conditions as the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation may impose.

Where any condition imposed by the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation is not performed or being performed to its satisfaction, it may revoke the postponement, waiver, or remission as from a date to be specified in a notice to the holder.

(4)

No postponement, waiver or remission shall be granted under this section in respect of any instalment, interest or rent which becomes due after the expiration of twelve months from the date of the recommendation of the special land board or local land board, as the case may be.

(5)

The granting of any postponement, waiver or remission under this section shall not prevent a further application being made and considered.

(6)

The Water Administration Ministerial Corporation shall have discretion to refuse any application under subsection (1), which discretion shall be independent of the recommendation of the special land board or local land board, as the case may be.

(7)

This section shall extend to a case in which the holder has been adversely affected by flood, fire, drought, storm, or tempest at any time after the first day of January one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and before the commencement of this Act.

(8)

Any application under the provisions of this section by a holder of land of any tenure under the Wentworth Irrigation Act, as amended by subsequent Acts, shall be referred to the special land board constituted for the land district of Coomealla.

Schedule

(Repealed)