Industries Assistance Act Amendment Act 1919 (WA)

1919.] Industries Assistance. [No. 43.

INDUSTRIES ASSISTANCE.

10° GEO. V., No. XXXI.

No. 43 of 1919.

AN ACT to further amend, and to continue the operation

of the Industries Assistance Aet, 1915.

[Assented to 17th December, 1919.]

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:—

This Act may be cited as the Industries Assistance Act Amendment Act, 1919, and shall be read as one with the In- dustries Assistance Act, 1915, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, and its amendments. Short title,

1.

2.    In the exercise of the power conferred by the Principal Power to ac-

Act to supply applicants with implements and machinery, the g;t0i,

Board may purchase, and shall be deemed to have had authority 2: rerres of

to purchase, implements and machinery, including implements

and machinery the subject of existing hire or hire-purchase

agreements.

3.    A printed report and audited balance-sheet of the opera- Audited

tions of the Board shall be laid before both Houses of Parlia- l'ord,:fperteeeit,

ment by the Minister in charge of the Department, on or etc.

before the thirtieth day of September, 1920.

4.    The Board may purchase, and shall be deemed to have rower to

had authority to purchase, from any creditor of a person to itontettrtierdse.bts

whom assistance is or may have been afforded under Part

2 of the principal Act, the debt due and owing by such

person.

No. 43.] Industries Assistance. [1919.

Amendment of

Section 15. 5. Section fifteen of the principal Act is amended by in-

serting after paragraph (c), in subsection (1), a paragraph,

as follows :—

"and (d) subject to prior encumbrances, shall be, and. until fully paid shall continue, a charge on all other live stock, implements, machinery, plant, and moveable struc- tures of the applicant; but any proceeds of the charge created by this paragraph shall, if such chattels are

realised by the Board, be distributed pari passe

between the Board and the other creditors of the appli- cant : Provided that the Board in its discretion may allow the whole or any portion of the proceeds of the sale of dairy produce, pigs, and poultry, to be retained by the settler."

Amendment of	6.	Subsection (4) of section fourteen of the Industries As-
Section 14 of

Act No. 16 of

sistance Act Amendment Act, 1917, is amended by inserting

1917.

after the figures " 1917 " the words " or of any subsequent

harvest."

Continuation of

7. Section fifteen of the Industries Assistance Amend- ment Act, 1917, as amended by the Industries Assistance Act Continuation Act, 1919, is hereby further amended by omit- ting the figures "1920," and inserting the figures "1921" in place thereof.

principal Act.