Land Act Amendment Act 1954 (WA)

No. 17.] Land. [1954.

LAND.

3° Elizabeth II., No. XVII.

No. 17 of 1954.

AN ACT to amend the Land Act, 1933-1953.

[Assented to 22nd September, 1954.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Land Act

Amendment Act, 1954.

Reprinted

Acts,	(2) In this Act the Land Act, 1933-1953,
Vol. 3, 1950.
Approved

for reprint	Act No. 37 of 1933 as reprinted with amendments
23rd March,
1950.	to and including Act No. 68 of 1948 incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, and as further amended by Acts Nos. 58 of 1950 and 66 of 1953,

is referred to as the principal Act.

1954.] Land. [No. 17.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Land Act, 1933-1954.

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2. Subsection (2) of section eighty-five of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "payable" being the last word in the subsection the words, "except where the land is sold under para- graph (aa) of section eighty-six of this Act". amended.

3.    Section eighty-six of the principal Act is 2.;,Indet,.

amended by adding before paragraph (a) the fol-

lowing paragraph:-

(aa) by the Minister either by public auction or by public tender but in either case on such terms and conditions as the Governor approves and is hereby authorised to approve, but the Minister shall not dispose of the land by public auction until he has first endeavoured to dispose of it by public tender and that no satisfactory tender has amended.

been received; or .

Section one hundred and twenty-seven of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "land" in line one the words, ", other than land defined and set apart under subsection (1) of section eighty-four as Special Settlement land,".

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