Farmers' Debts Adjustment Act (Revival and Continuance) Act 1962 (WA)

No. 54.]	Farmers' Debts Adjustment	[1962.
(Revival and Continuance).

FARMERS' DEBTS ADJUSTMENT (REVIVAL AND CONTINUANCE).

11° Elizabeth II., No. LIV.

No. 54 of 1962.

AN ACT to revive and continue the operation of the Farmers' Debts Adjustment Act, 1930-1956, and to validate certain acts, matters and things.

[Assented to 20th November, 1962.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Farmers' Debts

Adjustment Act (Revival and Continuance) Act,

1962.1

Farmers' Debts Adjustment [ No. 54.

(Revival and Continuance).

2. The Farmers' Debts Adjustment Act, 1930- Ifso70?'

1956, which expired on the thirty-first day of March, re3,1„;;ZeLd nineteen hundred and sixty-two— continued.

(a)	shall be and is hereby revived;
(b)	shall be deemed to have been in operation from the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-two; and
(c)	shall continue in operation until the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven.

Validation

3. In order to resolve any doubts that, but for the enactment of this section might arise, all acts, matters and things done, suffered or permitted after the expiry of the Farmers' Debts Adjustment Act, 1930-1956, and before the coming into operation of this Act which, if the firstmentioned Act had not expired but had continued in operation until the coming into operation of this Act, would have been lawfully and properly done, suffered or permitted under the firstmentioned Act shall be deemed always to have been lawfully and properly done, suffered or permitted under that Act, and are hereby approved. of Acts.

4. A person is not liable to prosecution or frteminption

punishment for an offence under the Farmers' '.,VreV" act or omission that occurred between the thirty- first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-two and the coming into operation of this Act and which, but for the provisions of this section, would have rendered him so liable.