Forests Act Amendment Act 1924 (WA)

No. 31.] Forests. [1924.

FORESTS.

15° GEO. V., No. XXXI.

No. 31 of 1924.

AN ACT to amend the Forests Act, 1918.

[Assented to 16th January, 1925.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows :—

Short tale. 1.

This Act may be cited as the Forests Act Amend- ment Act, 1924, and shall be read as one with the Forests

Act, 1918, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Amendment or

(1.) Subsection (2) of section forty-one of the prin- cipal Act is amended by inserting after the word " depart- ment," in the first line thereof, the words " except as here- inafter provided, revenue derived from sandalwood," and a proviso is added to subsection (3), as follows :-

sec. 41. 2.

Provided that ten per centum of the net revenue from sandalwood or the sum of five thousand pounds, which- ever sum shall be the greater, shall be credited to the said special account at the Treasury and applied to the re-growth of sandalwood.

(2.) The said subsection shall have effect as hereby amended from the commencement of the financial year 1924-1925.

Limit of duration of 3. This Act shall continue in force till the thirtieth day Act.

of June, 1925, and no longer.