Geraldton Sailors and Soldiers' Memorial Institute Act Amendment Act 1956 (WA)

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SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL

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5° Elizabeth II., No. XVIII.

No. 18 of 1956.

AN ACT to amend the Geraldton Sailors and

Soldiers' Memorial Institute Act, 1929.

[Assented to 2nd November, 1956.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Geraldton =rim_

Sailors and Soldiers' Memorial Institute Act Amend- ment Act,1956.

(2) In this Act the Geraldton Sailors and Soldiers' Memorial Institute Act, 1929 (Act No. 38 of 1929), is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Geraldton Sailors and Soldiers' Memorial Institute Act, 1929-1956.

S. 2

Section two of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words "Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia" in lines two and three of the definition "Returned soldier" the words "the Returned Sailors' Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia".

amended. 2.

S. 4

amended. 3. Section four of the principal Act is amended

by

(a)	substituting for the words "Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia" in lines three and four of sub- section (4) the words "Returned Sailors' Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia";
(b)	inserting after the word "it" in line five of subsection (4) the word "shall";
(c)	adding after subsection (4) the following subsection:

(4a) (a) The two trustees appointed under subsection (4) of this section shall cease to hold office on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven and the vacancies shall be filled by the executive, which shall appoint one trustee for a period of one year and the other trustee for a period of two years computed in each case from the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven.

(b) Subject to paragraph (a) of this subsection, every appointment made by the executive to fill a vacancy occurring by effluxion of time shall be an appoint- ment for a period of two years from the occurrence of the vacancy, but an

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appointment made to fill a vacancy occurring from any other cause shall be an appointment for a period being the balance of the term for which the former holder of the vacant office was appointed.

(c) A former trustee shall be eligible

for appointment.

4. Section six of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words "Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia" in lines nine and ten of paragraph (c) the words "Returned Sailors' Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia".