Land Act Amendment Act 1926 (WA)

1926.] Land. [No. 43.

LAND.

17° GEo. V., No. XLIII.

No. 43 of 1926.

AN ACT to amend Section thirty of the Land Act Amend-

ment Act, 1917.

[Assented to 23rd December, 1926.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in

BE 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, 1926.

2.    (1) Subsection (1) of section thirty of the Land tencittAi,

Act Amendment Act, 1917, is hereby amended by omitting No. 19 of 1917.

the words " Provided that such rent shall not be less than

the rent prescribed by the principal Act for pastoral leases

in the several divisions of the State."

(2) If, in the case of any pastoral lease granted under subsection (1) or subsection (4) of section thirty of the Land Act Amendment Act, 1917, the Board of Appraisers would, except for the first proviso to subsection (1) thereof, have advised that the rent for the first fifteen years of the term should be less than the rent prescribed by the principal Act for pastoral leases in the several divisions of the State, the Board may re-appraise the demised land and recommend a reduced annual rent ; and in such case the Minister may determine the rent per annum at such reduced rate as from the 1st day of January, 1927, by a memorandum under his hand, which shall be regis- tered in the office of Land Titles with the Crown Lease to which it relates, and thereupon it shall be deemed that the rent reserved by and payable under the lease, for the residue of the first fifteen years of the term, is at such reduced rate.