Land Agents Act Amendment Act 1974 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

LAND AGENTS.

No. 55 of 1974.

AN ACT to amend the Land Agents Act, 1921-1973.

[Assented to 3rd December, 19741

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:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Land Agents gfrt ttt on.

Act Amendment Act, 1974.

(2) In this Act the Land Agents Act, 1921-1973,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act Zi'g'Z'fg;

may be cited as the Land Agents Act, 1921-1974. Cgrrc ille

and

amended

by Acts Not

86 of 1966,

40 of 1960,

55 of 1972

and

26 of 1973.

No. 55.] Land Agents. [1974.

S. 3

amended. 2. Section 3 of the principal Act is amended by inserting immediately after subsection (1) thereof, new subsections as follows

(la) No person shall be eligible to apply for or to be the holder of a license unless he has attained the age of 18 years.

(lb) Where a person has during the period commencing on the 1st day of November, 1972 (being the date on which the Age of Majority Act, 1972 came into operation) and expiring on the date when the Land Agents Act Amendment Act, 1974 came into operation lodged an applica- tion for a license pursuant to subsection (1) of section 4 of this- Ad and , such application is still pending the same shall not be refused only on the ground that at the date of the lodgment of such application the applicant was under the age of 21 years if he had then attained the age of 18 years.

(1c) A license granted during the period mentioned in subsection (lb) of this section shall not be void or voidable or be revoked only on the ground that at the date when the same was granted the licensee was under the age of

21 years if he had then attained the age of 18

years.

(id) Where a license granted during the period mentioned in subsection (lb) of this section has prior to the expiration of such period by the declaration of a Court of competent jurisdiction been declared void and of no effect only on the ground that the licensee is under the age of 21 years such license shall by force of the operation of this subsection be re-instated to such licensee and shall subject to the provisions of the other sections of this Act have and be deemed always to have had full force and effect such declaration aforesaid not- withstanding.

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(le) Subsections (la), (lb), (1c) and (id) of this section shall have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other section of this Act. .

3. The principal Act is amended by deleting the Matetdule passage "twenty-one years" in the First Schedule amended. appearing immediately before the passage "HEREBY

APPLY" and substituting the passage "eighteen

years".