Land Act Amendment Act 1918 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

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ANNO OCTAVO

GEORGII QUINTI REGIS,

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No. 6 of 1918.

AN ACT to extend the time within which Leases may be surrendered and applications made for new leases under Section 30, subsection 4, of the Land Act Amendment Act, 1017.

[Assented to 29th March, 1918.]

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 short title.

Act, 1918.

2. (1) Subject as hereinafter provided, the time within which applications under subsection (4) of section thirty	for application underExtension of time
Subsection (4) of
of the Land Act Amendment Act, 1917, may be made is	Section 30 of Act
hereby extended until the expiration of one year from the	No. 19 of 1917.
issue of a proclamation by the Governor General of the Com- monwealth that the present state of war between His Majesty the King and the Emperor of Germany has ceased :

1918, No. 6.] Land Act—Amendment. [8 GEO. V.

Provided that notwithstanding anything contained in the said subsection to the contrary, this Act shall 'only have effect in favour of lessees who, as from the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, shall have paid rent in respect of all pastoral leases held by them at the rate of double the amount of annual rent payable for the time being under such leases.

(2) The fifth paragraph of the said subsection (4) shall not apply so far as it is thereby provided that rent paid in excess of that reserved by an original lease is repayable if a lessee declares his refusal of a new lease at the rent to be thereby reserved.

(3) The word " lessee " in the said subsection (4), and in this Act, includes a transferee of a lessee.