Land Act Amendment Act (No. 3) 1956 (WA)

1956.] Land (No. 3). [No. 51.

LAND (No. 3).

5° Elizabeth II., No. LI.

No. 51 of 1956.

AN ACT to amend the Land Act, 1933-1954.

[Assented to 27th December, 1956.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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:—

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

Amendment Act (No. 3), 1956.

(2) In this Act the Land Act, 1933-1954,

Act No. 37 of 1933 as reprinted with amend- IgsriVor3, ments to and including Act No. 68 of 1948 19PPLnpp:oved for incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the glx?:11MtarCh.

No. 51.] Land (No. 3). [1956.

Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, and as further amended by Acts Nos. 58 of 1950, 66 of 1953 and 17 of 1954,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Land Act, 1933-1956.

H. 89D added.

Cf. No. 58 of 2. The principal Act is amended by adding after 89D. (1) The Governor may authorise any of the Ministers of the Crown on behalf of the State

1950, a. 21. section eighty-nine C, the following section:—

(a) to enter into, and carry out, any agree- ment for the disposal of any area or areas of any Crown land, for such price or consideration, and subject to such conditions, and containing such covenants, as the Governor approves, but

(i)    only if the agreement is made with a body corporate approved by the Governor; and

(ii)    only if the agreement contains a covenant by which the body corporate is bound to develop the land for agricultural purposes approved by the Governor;

and

(b) to sue and be sued, compromise claims and actions, and enter into submis- sions to arbitration, in respect of any matter arising out of, or in connection with, the agreement or its interpreta- tion.

1956.] Land (No. 3). [No. 51.

Provided that any agreement entered into after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven, shall be ratified by Parliament and failing such ratification within six months of the date of such agreement it shall be void and of no effect.

The Governor may exercise the power conferred by subsection (1) of this section and the Minister may act upon, and in accordance with, any authorisation conferred in exercise of the power, notwithstanding the provisions of any other section of this Act, or of any regulations, whether limiting the area of Crown land which may be disposed of under this Act, or prescribing the manner in which, or the price or consideration for which, or the conditions subject to which, Crown land may be disposed of under this Act, or otherwise affecting or related to the disposal of Crown land under this Act.

(2)

This section shall be deemed to have come

into operation on the nineteenth day of Novem-

ber, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six.

(3)