Land Act Amendment Act 1936 (WA)

No. 4.] Land. [1936.

LAND.

1° Eown. VIII., No. IV.

No. 4 of 1936.

AN ACT to amend the Land Act, 1933-1934, by making provision therein for relief from payment of rent for pastoral lessees whose Leases are situate in drought-stricken areas.

[Assented to 3rd November, 1936.]

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of WesternBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis-

Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Short title.	1. This Act may be cited as the Land Act Amend- ment Act, 1936, and shall be read as one with the Land Act, 1933-1934 (hereinafter called the principal Act).
New section

inserted in 2. A new section is inserted after section one hun-

principal Act, dred and one of the principal Act, as follows :—

e. 101A.

Temporary 101A. (1.) Where the lessee proves that in the

provisions

for relief from half-year ending the thirty-first day of December,

rent on

account of

one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, or the

drought.

year ending the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, he has suf- fered serious loss of stock through drought, or that his wool production in respect of stock on any pas- toral lease has been adversely affected by drought, the Minister may grant the lessee relief from pay- ment of rent payable under such pastoral lease in respect of those periods: provided that no such re- lief shall be granted except on the recommendation of the Board of Appraisers appointed under section ninety-eight.

(2.) The relief granted under this section may be total or partial, and may take the form of ex- tended terms for the payment of the rent payable under the lease.

Citation of 3. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be

principal Act	ip
as a	mended. cited as the Land Act, 1933-1936.