Land Act Amendment Act 1925 (WA)

1925.] Land. [No. 21.

LAND.

16° GEO. V., No. XXI.

No. 21 of 1925.

AN ACT to add a subsection to Section 105 of the Land

Aet, 1898.

[Assented to 16th December, 1925.]

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, 1925.

2.    A subsection is added to section one hundred and =vv. of

five of the Land Act, 1898, as follows:

(2.) If on an application to rectify or alter the boundaries of a pastoral lease it is found impractic- able to do so in such manner as not to disturb the boundaries of another lease, and improvements were

bona fide made by the applicant or his predecessor

in title on land comprised in such other lease in the belief that such land was within the boundaries of the applicant's lease, the Minister may, in his discretion, adjust the boundaries of the respective leases so as to exclude the land on which such im- provements were made from the lease of such land, and include such land in the lease of the applicant, unless the bolder of such other lease is willing to pay the applicant the fair value of the improvements to be ascertained, if not agreed upon, in the manner prescribed by section one hundred and forty-eight of

this Act which, mutatis mutandis, shall apply.