Local Government (Amendment) Act 1931 (NSW)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AMEND-

MENT) ACT.

Act No. 38, 1931.

An Act to make certain provisions relating to the two of section thirty of the Local Govern- ment Act, 1919, to and in respect of the first ordinary triennial election of aldermen and councillors to be held after the com- mencement of this Act; to amend the Local Government Act, 1919, and certain other Acts; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 29th September, 1931.] application of paragraph (b) of subsection1

ment (Amendment) Act, 1931," and shall be read with the Local Government Act, 1919, as amended by subse- quent Acts. (2)

~ I } E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, J . ) by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1 , (1) This Act may be cited as the " Local Govern-:

(2) The Local Government Act, 1919, as so amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

2 . Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (h) of subsection two of section thirty of the Principal Act, a person shall not be disqualified from being elected at the first ordinary triennial election of alder- men or councillors to be held after the commencement of this Act, or, if elected at such election, from holding office or acting therein by reason only of the fact that he has not before nomination paid—

(a) any rates; or

(b) any charges for the removal of nightsoil or garbage,

which at any time within the period of two years next preceding the dale upon which nomination day falls became due and payable by him to the council.