Crown Lands and Irrigation (Amendment) Act 1914 (NSW)

CKOWN LANDS AND IRRIGA-

TION (AMENDMENT) A ( T .

Act No. 10, 1914.

Ai\ A c t to a m e n d the Crown Lands Consolidation

Act , 1913, t h e I r r i ga t i on Act , 1912, and

t h e W a t e r Act , 1912, ii) cer ta in respects ;

a n d	for	purposes	consequen t	t h e r e o n	and
inc iden ta l	t h e r e t o .	[Assented	to ,	16th	April ,
1914.]

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South EC, it enacted by the King's Most Kxeellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis-

Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :

1 . This Act shall come into force on the first day
of April, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

and mav he cited as the " Crown Lands and Irrigation

(Amendment) Act, 1914." 2 .

2. The following amendments are made in the

Crown Lands Consolidation Act, 1913 :—

Section one hundred and thirty-eight: The words " may he composed of officers of the Commis­ sioner for Water Conservation and Irrigation and " are inserted next after the word " which "

The words " Notwithstanding section eleven of this Act, the fact that a duly appointed member of the special land board is an officer of the commissioner shall not be deemed to render such officer in any way interested or liable to penalty under the provisions of that section," are inserted next after the words " local land board."

Section one hundred and forty-three : The words " at the end of each year " are substituted for the words " half-yearly in advance "

Section two hundred and twenty-two, subsection two : The following proviso is inserted at the end of the subsection :—" Provided that in the case of a surrender of a lease or part thereof within an irrigation area, or of the granting of tenant right upon the forfeiture of a lease within an irrigation area the Commissioner may pay to the surrenderor or to the last owner thereof the value of such tenant-right, and thereupon—if it has not already occurred— the tenant-right shall cease and the improve­ ments, the subject of such tenant-right, shall become the property of the Crown."

Section two hundred and thirty-one, subsection two :	The following proviso is added at the end of
the subsection :—" Provided that part of a lease within an irrigation area may also be surrendered in the manner aforesaid "

Section two hundred and seventy-three, subsections one and two : The words " or otherwise dealt with " are omitted, and the words "except by way of mortgage " are inserted in lieu thereof.

3. The following amendments arc made in the Irriga­

tion Act, 1912 :—

Section eight, subsection one : The words " the

Water Rights Act, 1902," in paragraph (c) are

omitted,

omitted, and the words and figures " Part I I and Part V of the Water Act, 1912," are inserted in lieu thereof.

The words " the Artesian Wells Act, 1897, the Water and Drainage Act, 1902, and the Water and Drainage; and Artesian Wells (Amending) Act, 1900," in paragraph (d) are omitted, and the words and figures " Part I I I of the Water Act, 1912," are inserted in lieu thereof.

The words " t h a t A c t " are substituted for

the words " those Acts " in paragraph (d)

Sub-section two—The word " Act " is

substituted for the word " A c t s " wherever

occurring.

The word " it " is substituted for the words

" those A c t s "

Section fifteen: The words " and shall, when so prescribed, he paid in advance " are omitted.

Section nineteen is repealed, and the following is inserted in lieu thereof :—

19. The commissioner, with the approval of the Minister on application as prescribed and subject to such conditions as are deemed advisable, may for any year of a tenancy, in his discretion, suspend for a period not exceeding three years the payment by the occupier of any part of the rent, not exceeding seventy-live per centum of the value' of the un­ encumbered permanent improvements effected by the occupier on the land leased. Payment of the amount of rent so suspended shall he

and shall bear interest at the rate of five per	extended over a period not exceeding ten years,
centum per annum.

4. The following amendment is made in the Water

Act, 1912 :—

Section one hundred and thirteen, subsection one, is amended by substituting "Commissioner for Water Conservation and Irrigation," for " Under Secretary for Public Works."

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