Distress for Rent Restriction Act 1904 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUARTO

EDWARD' SEPTIAII REGIS,

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No. 55 of 1904.

AN ACT to amend the Law relating to

Distress for Rent.

[Assented to 24th December, 1904.]

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and

with the advice' and consent of the Legislative Council

and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as

follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Distress fir Rent Restriction Short title.

Act, 1904.

2.	After the commencement of this Act, it shall not be lawful	Sowing machines,
typewriting

to distrain any sewing machine, typewriting machine, or mangle,

machines, and

the property of or under hire to any female person, for any rent

mangles exempt

from distress in

claimed in respect of the premises or place in which such sewing

certain cases_

machine, typewriting machine, or mangle may be : Provided that

N.S.W., 1898, No.

any one such person shall not be entitled to have more than

43, s. 1.

one sewing machine, one typewriting machine, or one mangle

protected from distress under the provisions of this Act.

1904, No. 55.] Distress for Rent Restriction. [4 EDW. VII.

Clothes, bedding,

and tools exempted 3. From and after the passing of this Act the following goods

from distress.	and chattels shall also be exempt from distress for rent, namely, any
51 & 52 Viet.,	goods or chattels of the tenant or his family which would be
No. 21 (Imp.).	protected from seizure in execution under section one hundred and twenty-six of the Local Courts Act, 1904, or any enactment amending or substituted for the same.

By Authority : WM. ALFRED WATsoN, Government Printer, Perth.