Land Act Amendment Act 1919 (WA)

No. 62.] Land Act Amendment. [1919.

LAND ACT AMENDMENT.

10° GEO. V., No. L.

No. 62 of 1919.

AN ACT to further amend the Land Aet, 1898.

[Assented to 17th December, 1919.]

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 l title 1.

This Act may be cited as the Land Act Amendment Act, 1919, and shall be read as one with the Land Act, 1898, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, and the Acts amending the same.

Discount for

If a lessee under section fifty-five, fifty-six, or sixty- chase money payable under his lease in advance of the half- yearly instalments thereof, he shall be allowed such rebate as shall reduce the amount paid to a sum equal to the pre- sent value of the instalments of purchase money to fall due under the lease, calculated actuarially on a five per cent. basis.

payment of 2.

purchase

money In	eight of the Land Act, 1898, shall pay the balance of the pur-
advance.

Cost of survey. 3.

(1.) Section eight of the Land Act Amendment Act, 1905, as amended by the Land Act Amendment Act, 1909, is hereby further amended by adding to the first paragraph thereof the following:

Provided that the Minister may, in his discretion, re- fuse to effect the survey of any land for a lessee or pro- posed lessee unless the lessee or proposed lessee pays the full cost of survey in advance:

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Provided, also, that if a lease is surrendered or for- feited the cost of the survey, or the unpaid balance thereof, shall, if so directed by the Minister, be payable to the Minister forthwith by the person in whom the lease was vested .at the date of the surrender or for- feiture.

4. (1.) When after the granting of any conditional pur- Inclusion of closed roads in

chase lease any road running through or across or abutting	adjoining landheld under
on any portion of the land comprised therein has been closed,	conditional
purchase lease.
the Minister may, by an order under his hand, direct that such road shall be included in the land comprised in the lease.
(2.) Every such order shall have effect according to its tenor, and every alteration and entry or memorial necessary to give effect to any such order shall be made in and on the lease instrument in the Office of Titles or the Department of Lands and Surveys, free of charge.

5. After the commencement of this Act Transfer of pastoral leases

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the princi- pal Act, or in any Act amending the same, the Minister may, in his absolute discretion, refuse to approve of the transfer of any Crown lands under Part X. of the principal Act to any com- pany incorporated after the commencement of this Act; to companies.

(2) For the purpose of this section the Minister may re- quire any director, shareholder, or officer of any such company to make one or more statutory de- clarations containing such information as the Min- ister deems necessary to enable the Minister to exercise his discretion as aforesaid.