Lotteries (Control) Act Amendment Act 1956 (WA)

[No. 71.

1956.] Lotteries (Control).

LOTTERIES (CONTROL).

5° Elizabeth II., No. LXXI.

No. 71 of 1956.

AN ACT to amend the Lotteries (Control) Act, 1954.

[Assented to 4th January, 1957.]

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:—

Short title

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

(Control) Act Amendment Act, 1956.

(2) In this Act the Lotteries (Control) Act, 1954,

Act No. 18 of 1954,

is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Lotteries (Control) Act, 1954- 1956.

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amended. 2. Section six of the principal Act is amended by adding after subsection (2) the following sub- section:—

(3) (a) The Commission having regard to

the desire of their servants may either

(i)    enter into and carry out an agreement with an assurance company for the purpose of providing pensions for any of their servants; or

(ii) request that the inclusion of the Com- mission as a department for the pur- poses of the Superannuation and Family Benefits Act, 1938 be recom- mended by the Minister having the administration of that Act and approved by the Treasurer.

03) If a request is made pursuant to sub- paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of this sub- section,

(i)   then notwithstanding the interpreta- tion of the term, "department" in subsection (1) of section six of the Superannuation and Family Benefits

Cf. No. 34 of

1938 as	Act, 1938, the Treasurer, on the recom-
amended.
mendation of the Minister mentioned in that interpretation, may, if the Commission enters into the agreement and makes the arrangements required by the proviso to that interpretation, approve the inclusion of the Commis- sion as a department for the purposes of that Act; and

(ii)    the Commission is authorised to enter into and carry out the agreement and the arrangements.

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If the Treasurer so approves the inclusion of the Commission as a department, the Com- mission shall be deemed a department for the purposes of that Act, but no such approval and no provision of this subsection constitutes the Commission a department for any other purpose, or constitutes the Commission a Crown instru- mentality.

(c)

No servant of the Commission is com- pelled to become a contributor for pension, superannuation, or benefits, under this section.

(d)