Land Agents Act Amendment Act 1966 (WA)

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LAND AGENTS.

No. 86 of 1966.

AN ACT to amend the Land Agents Act, 1921-1964.

[Assented to 12th December, 1966.]

RE 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:—

Short title

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

Act Amendment Act, 1966.

Reprinted

as approved	(2)	In this Act the Land Agents Act, 1921-1964,
for Reprint,

30th March,	is referred to as the principal Act.
1965.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Land Agents Act, 1921-1966.

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2. Section two of the principal Act is amended amended.

by adding after the passage, "Act—" an interpre-

tation as follows

"approved applicant" means an applicant for a license who is approved by the Minister pursuant to subsection (2b) of section four of this Act. .

3.    Section four of the principal Act is amended— S.—ended.

(a) by adding after subsection (2a) a subsec-

tion as follows

(2b) (a) Where an application for a license, or for the transfer to him of a license, is made on behalf of a company by a director or an employee thereof, appointed in writing by the company to hold the license on its behalf, and the company is

(i)    authorised by an Act to apply for and obtain probate of the will of a testator;

(ii) a pastoral company in respect of which an exemption granted under section eleven of the Banking Act 1959 of the Parlia- ment of the Commonwealth, or that Act as amended from time to time, is in force; or

(iii)  a company declared by the Minister on the recommendation of the Committee to be a company in relation to which this subsection applies,

the Clerk of the Court of Petty Sessions with whom the application is lodged shall cause copies of the application to be delivered to the Minister and to the Committee.

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(b) The Minister may, after consider- ing an application received from the Clerk of a Court of Petty Sessions, pur- suant to this subsection and any report made thereon to him by the Committee, certify in writing to the Clerk that the applicant is an approved applicant for the purposes of this subsection, or may advise the Clerk that he refuses to so certify in relation to that applicant.

(c) The provisions of subsections (4) and (4a) of this section do not apply in relation to an application by an approved applicant, and the provisions of subsec- tion (5) of this section do not apply in relation to an application in the first instance for, or to an application for the transfer to him of, a license made by an approved applicant. ;

(b)	by deleting the word, "or" appearing immediately after subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of subsection (3); and
(c)	by substituting for the passage, "such," in line five of subparagraph (v) of para- graph (a) of subsection (3) a passage as follows

"such; or

(vi) is an approved applicant,".