Land Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

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12° Elizabeth II., No. LX.

No. 60 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend sections three, forty-seven, ninety-eight to one hundred (both inclusive), one hundred and one A to one hundred and three (both inclusive), one hundred and nine to one hundred and nine B (both inclusive), one hundred and thirteen to one hundred and fifteen (both inclusive), one hundred and thirty-nine and one hundred and forty of, and the Nineteenth Schedule to, the Land Act, 1933- 1962; and to repeal sections fifty-five, fifty-six, ninety-two to ninety-six (both inclusive) and one hundred and one of that Act.

[Assented to 18th December, 1963.]

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:—

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and citation.

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

Amendment Act, 1963.

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(2) In this Act the Land Act, 1933-1962, is referred

Reprinted

Acts.

to as the principal Act.

Approved for reprint, 27th May, 1958,

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

and amended

by Acts

be cited as the Land Act, 1933-1963.

No. 12 of 1958,

No. 36 of

1958, No. 6,

of 1960, and

No. 41 of

1962.

Commence-

2. This Act shall come into operation on a day

ment.

to be fixed by proclamation.

3. Section three of the principal Act is amended— Wended.

(a)

by adding immediately after the interpre- tion "Adjoining" in subsection (1), the following interpretation

"Bed" with reference to a water-course means the land over which the water of the water-course normally flows, whether permanently or intermit- tently; but does not include land that is from time to time temporarily covered by flood waters of the water-course. ;

(b)

by adding after the word, "waters" being the last word in the interpretation, "Crown Lands" in subsection (1), the passage, ", and includes, for the purposes of sections one hundred and sixteen and one hundred and eighteen of this Act, all lands below low water mark on the seashore and on the banks of tidal waters and all lands being the beds of water-courses";

(c)

by adding at the end of subsection (1) the "Water-course" means a river, stream or creek in which water flows in a natural channel, whether perman- ently or intermittently. ; and

following interpretation-

(d)

by adding after the word, "waters" being the last word in subsection (2), the passage, ", and for the purposes of sections one hundred and sixteen and one hundred and

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eighteen of this Act all lands below low water mark on the seashore and on the banks of tidal waters and all lands being the beds of water-courses".

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4.

Section forty-seven of the principal Act is

amended.

amended by adding to subparagraph (a) of

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