Group Settlement Act Amendment Act 1928 (WA)

No. 34.] Group 'Settlement. [1923.

GROUP SETTLEMENT.

19° GEO. V., No. XXXIV.

No. 34 of 1928.

AN ACT to amend the Group Settlement Act, 1925.

[Assented to 28th December, 1928.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows :—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Group Settlement Act

Amendment Act, 1928.

Amendment ot s. 3. 2. Subsection (2) of section three of the Group Settle- ment Act, 1925, is repealed, and a subsection is inserted in place thereof as follows :-

(2) The amount of such expenditure on the area, chargeable to the group settlers, and the part thereof to be apportioned to each parcel of land intended to be granted, shall be assessed and determined by a Board of three members, to be appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be an officer of the Agricultural Bank, with power to the Board, at its discretion, to fix the amount chargeable, and to be apportioned to each parcel of land within the group settlement area at such sum below the actual expenditure as the Board may think fit, so far as such ex- penditure shall be found by the Board to be in excess of the capitalisation which each group settler's area can reasonably hear, having regard to the prospective income derivable therefrom.

The Board shall report its decisions to the Gov-

ernor.