Goldfields Act Amendment Act 1888 (WA)

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No. XXIV.

AN ACT to amend " The Goldfields Act, 1886."

[ Assented to, 7th January, 1888. ]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend "The Goldfields Act,

1886: " Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of

W

Western Australia and its. Dependencies, by and with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

1. THIS Act shall be called and may be cited as " The Gold- Short Title.

fields Act Amendment Act, 1888."

IN this Act the expression " The Act " shall mean " The Goldfields Act, 1886," and the expression " Division of the Colony shall mean a division thereof as defined in the Land Regulations, 1887. Interpretation.

2.

3. THE proviso contained in the eleventh Section of the Act Repeal of g vA i soot in

shall be and is hereby repealed. Such repeal shall not take effect	oo
on the Kimberley Goldfields until the 15th April, 1888.

51° YICTORL3, No. 24.

The Goldfields Act Amendment Act, 1888.

4.     THE reward payable to the actual discoverers of new

Under what circum-

stances a Reward for

goldfields, as provided in the eighty-first Section of the Act, shall be

the discovery of a

payable only when a newly discovered goldfield is situate in a

new goldfield is to

be payable.

division of the Colony in which no goldfield has been previously

proclaimed.

5.

IT shall be lawful for the warden of any goldfield, at his not exceeding three months altogether, relax, dispense with, or modify the conditions as to labor or residence required by the present OE any future regulations, when, in his opinion, it would be unreasonable that such conditions should be enforced in their entirety.

Power to warden to

modify labor or resi-	discretion, to wholly or partially, for such time as he may please,
dence conditions.

6.

THE provisions of the 79th Section of the Act shall be the making, altering, and repealing regulations relating to the prospecting and mining for gold in places not within the limits of a proclaimed goldfield, and penalties not exceeding those stated in the said Section may be provided for the breach of such regulations.

Extension of	cc. 79 and are hereby extended, so far as applicable or necessary, to
of the Act.

7.      THIS Act shall be read and construed with the Act.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen, I hereby assent

to this Act.

F. NAPIER BROOME, Governor.

By Authority : RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.