Crown Lands, Returned Soldiers Settlement and Closer Settlement (Amendment) Act 1945 (NSW)

CROWN LANDS, RETURNED SOLDIERS

SETTLEMENT AND CLOSER SETTLE­

MENT (AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 14, 1945.

An Act to extend for a further period certain provisions of the Crown Lands (Amend­ ment) Act, 1932; to make further pro­ vision as to revision of certain indebted­ ness of discharged soldiers to the Crown; to provide for variation of the amount upon which the annual rent for a settle­ ment purchase lease or a group purchase lease is based; to alter the constitution of closer settlement advisory boards; for these and other purposes to amend the Crown Lands (Amendment) Act, 1932, the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act,

1916, and the Closer Settlement Acts; and

for purposes connected therewith. [As­

sented to, 3rd April, 1945.]

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South	BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent 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 may be cited as the "Crown Lands, Returned Soldiers Settlement and Closer Settlement (Amendment) Act, 1945."
2. (1) The Crown Lands (Amendment) Act, 1932, as amended by subsequent Acts, is amended by omitting from section three the words "twelve yea r s " wherever occurring and by inserting in lieu thereof the words
"fifteen years" . (2)

(2) This section shall be deemed to have com­ menced on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four.

3. (1) The Returned Soldiers Settlement Act, 1916, as amended by subsequent Acts, is amended by inserting in paragraph (a) of subsection one of section twenty-one after the word "allowances" the words " o r in respect of premiums paid by the Crown for insurance against loss by fire."

(2) This section shall be deemed to have com­ menced on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five.

4. The Closer Settlement Amendment (Conversion) Act, 1943, is amended—

(a) by inserting in paragraph (b) of subsection one of section three after the word "advanced" the following proviso:—

"Provided that where an amount representing the value of all improvements effected out of an advance made as aforesaid for the purpose of clearing, fencing, draining, water supply, grading and general improvement of the land or for the erection of buildings thereon was in­ cluded in the capital value of a soldiers' group purchase the sum so advanced shall not be deductible nor be deemed ever to have been deductible from the amount of the fair market value of the land as so determined;"

(b) by inserting next after section three the follow­

ing new section:—

3A. The Minister may with the consent of the applicant for or holder of a settlement purchase lease or group purchase lease increase the amount upon which the annual rent is calculated in accordance with section three of this Act by adding thereto amounts equivalent to the whole or part of the interest or principal moneys due or to become due to the Crown in respect of advances made in pursuance of the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act, 1916, as amended by

subsequent

subsequent Acts, or for sustenance or other allowances, or in respect of premiums paid by the Crown for insurance against loss by fire, and payment of such moneys shall as to the whole or part, as the case may require, thereupon be waived.

As from the date upon which such moneys are added in accordance with the foregoing provi­ sions the annual rent of the settlement purchase lease or group purchase lease shall be two and one-half per centum of the amount calculated in accordance with section three of this Act and the amounts added thereto in accordance with the provisions of this section.

5. (1) The Closer Settlement (Amendment) Act, 1907, as amended by subsequent Acts, is amended by omitting subsections two and three of section two and by inserting in lieu thereof the following new subsections:—

(2) The Governor may appoint a Chairman of

Closer Settlement Advisory Boards.

(3) Each advisory board shall comprise the Chair­ man of Closer Settlement Advisory Boards and two other members appointed by the Governor.

(4) In case of the absence or illness of the Chair­ man or any other member of any such board the Governor may appoint a deputy who, during such absence or illness, shall have and may exercise and discharge all the powers, authorities, duties and functions of such chairman or member, as the case may be.

(2 ) This section shall commence upon a day to be

appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation

published in the Gazette.

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