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GEORG1I QUINTI REGIS,
XXXIX.
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No. 19 of 1917.
AN ACT to further amend the Land Act,
1898.
[Assented to 28th March, 1917.]
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 :-
| 1. | This Act may be cited as the Land Act Amendment Act, | Short title. |
1917, and shall be read as one with the Land Act, 1898, here- inafter referred to as the principal Act, and its amendments.
| Section nine of the Land Act, 1898, is hereby amended by adding a proviso as follows :- | Amendment ofsection 9 of |
| principal Act. |
2.
" Provided that if other suitable land is not available to grant in exchange for the land resumed, or if it appears to the Minister that in the circumstances of any particular case the grant of other land in exchange, or the return of a proportionate part of the purchase money, would be inadequate compensation for the resumption, the Governor may make to the lessee, or any person claiming under him, such pecuniary compensation as the Minister in his discretion may recommend."
" Provided further, that particulars of the resumption and the
amount of pecuniary compensation paid be laid on the Table of both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days of the resump- tion, if Parliament be sitting, or if Parliament be not sitting, within fourteen clays of the opening of the next succeeding session of Parliament."
| 1917, No. 19.] | Land Act Amendment. | [7 GEO. V. |
Amendment of
Section twenty-seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words " offered for sale " and in- serting in place thereof " sold by auction or private contract," and by omitting the words " at public auction."
| section 27 of | 3. |
principal Act.
| Amendment of | 4. |
Section thirty-eight of the Principal Act is amended by striking out the word " six " in line '2, and inserting " five " in lieu thereof, by striking out the words " Central Division " and the descrip- tion of the boundaries immediately following, and by striking out the word " Central " in the description of boundaries of the Eastern Division.
section 38.
| Lessee of town or | 5. | A section is inserted in Part IV. of the principal Act |
| suburban land may |
| acquire fee simple. | as follows :- |
" 52A. Any lessee of town or suburban land may, subject to the regulations, on payment of the price of the land to be fixed by the Minister, but not to exceed the capital value as determined at the commencement of the lease, and on performance of the prescribed im- provement conditions, if any, surrender his lease and obtain in…