Lands Acquisition Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 82

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I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Lands Acquisition Act 1906 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated the 17th day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

(Signed) R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. H. KELLY,

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

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1. The words “Forms for use under Act,” before Regulation 1 of Regulations made under the Lands Acquisition Act 1906 (Statutory Rules 1907, No. 110) are repealed, and the words “Lands Acquisition Regulations 1907” are inserted in their stead.

2. After Regulation 1 the following Regulations are inserted:—

“2. In the making of official surveys for the purposes of the Lands Acquisition Act 1906, the distinguishing mark to be used by the surveyors carrying out the surveys shall be in the form of a broad arrow with a horizontal line beneath it.”

“3. The survey mark described in Regulation 2 shall not be used by surveyors carrying out private surveys or by other persons not authorized in that behalf by the Commonwealth Government.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

“4. No person shall wilfully obliterate, remove, or deface any Commonwealth survey mark or any landmark or beacon which has been placed on or erected for the purposes of survey by or under the direction of the Commonwealth Government.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

“5. Nothing in these Regulations shall render the owner or occupier of any land liable to a penalty for the removal from such land of trees upon which a Commonwealth survey mark has been made if the removal of the trees is necessary for the purpose of fencing, clearing, or otherwise improving the land.”

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