Miners' Homestead Leases Acts Amendment Act of 1947 (11 Geo Vi No. 30) (Qld)

254 Saving. MINING. - - -- - -- - -- - -- - ~ Miners' Homestead Leases, Etc., Act. 11 GEO. VI. No. 30, 3. The royalty on coal reserved under section thirteen of the Principal Act in any lease granted prior to and in force at the passing of this Act shall be and continue to be the royalty payable to the Crown on coal won, on or before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, from the land comprised in such lease as if this Act had not been passed. llN~ . E~ O. VI. An Act to Amend" The Miners' Homestead Leases H~ r: : ~: : D Acts, 1913 to 1939," in certain particulars. LEASES ACTS AMENDMENT ACT OF 1947. [ASSENTED TO 24TH NOVEMBER, 1947.] I )E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, . ) by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- Short title 1. This Act may be cited as " The Miners' Homestead :!truction. Leases Acts Amendment Act of 1947," and shall be read as one with *" The Miners' Homestead Leases Acts, 1913 to 1939," herein referred to as the Principal Act. Collective The Principal Act and this Act may be collectively title. cited as "The Miners' Homestead Leases Acts, 1913 to 1947." No further 2. (1.) From and after the date of the passing of m l h e o a imn se ee s rsstt' oeab d e tghriasntAedct unnodefrurtthheerPrminicniepras'l Ahocmt, eastnedadnolelaasneds sshhaallll bbee granted. available for application or for sale as miners' homesteads except as miners' homestead perpetual leases. (2.) All miners' homestead leases granted under the principal Act and subsisting at the date of the passing of this Act shall, until the same are surrendered or resumed or the existing title thereto is otherwise deter- mined, continue to be subject to *" The JJliners' Homestead Leases Acts, 1913 to 1947," as if this section had not been passed. ( 3~) Any application for a miner's homestead lease made and recommended by the warden under the Principal Act but not finally approved at the date of the passing of this Act may, at the option of the applicant, be treated and finally dealt with as an application for a miner's homestead perpetual lease. * 4 G. 5 No. 14 and amending Acts.

MINING. 255 1947. Miners' Homestead Leases, Etc., Act. A mendments of the Principal Act. 3. In section three of the Principal Act the Amendment definitions "Miner's Homestead Lease" and "Miner's of s. 3. Homestead Perpetual Lease" are repealed and the following definitions are inserted in lieu thereof, namely:- " " Miner's homestead lease "-Any miner's home- Miner's stead lease granted under this Act or under romestead Part VIII. of the Principal Act or under any ease. Act repealed by the Principal Act; "Miner's homestead perpetual lease "-Any Miner's miner's homestead perpetua I . I ease gran t e d pheormpeestuteaald under this Act;". lease. 4. In section five of the Principal Act the words Amendment and brackets" a miner's homestead lease or a miner's ofB. 5. homestead perpetual lease (as the case may be)" are repealed and the words" a miner's homestead perpetual lease" are inserted in lieu thereof. 5. In subsection one of section eight of the Principal Amendment Act the words and brackets" a miner's homestead lease ofs. 8 (1). or miner's homestead perpetual lease (as the case may be)" are repealed and the words" a miner's homestead perpetual lease" are inserted in lieu thereof. 6. Section 19A of the Principal Act is amended as Amendment follows :- of s. 19A. (a) In the first paragraph thereof the words and brackets" a miner's homestead lease or miner's home- stead perpetual lease (as the case may be) " are repealed and the words "a miner's homestead perpetual lease" are inserted in lieu thereof. (b) In the third paragraph thereof the words and brackets" miner's homestead leases or miner's homestead perpetual leases (as the case may be) " are repealed and the words "miners' homestead perpetual leases" are inserted in lieu thereof. 7. Section twenty-one of the Principal Act is Amendment amended as follows :- of s. 21. (i.) The following paragraph is inserted after paragraph (b) of subsection one thereof, namely:- "(c) If the land is situated within any city, town, or township and the Minister has by the notification declaring the land open for sal~

256 MINING. Miners' Homestead Leases, Etc., Act. 11 GEO. VI. No. 30,1947. as a miner's homestead by public auction imposed a condition that improvements of a value in excess of twenty-five pounds shall be made thereon, within six months after the date of the notice or such longer period of time thereafter as the Minister shall have specified in the notification, make improve- ments on the land of a value of not less than the amount in excess of twenty-five pounds specified in the notification. An applicant or purchaser required to comply with the provisions of this paragraph (c) shall, in addition, comply with the condition of residence where such lastmentioncd condition is applicable in his case." (ii.) The last paragraph of, being the proviso to, subsection one thereof is amended by inserting the words "or any of them" after the words "foregoing conditions. " (iii.) In subsection six thereof the words and brackets" a miner's homestead lease or miner's home- stead perpetual lease (as the case may be) " are repealed and the words" a miner's homestead perpetual lease" are inserted in lieu thereof. Amendment 8. Subsection one of section twenty-five of the ofa. 25 (1). Principal Act is amended by adding the following paragraph thereto, namely :- "Any sublessee may, with the approval of the Minister and the consent of the lessee, transfer or sublet his sublease: Provided that every such transfer or sublease shall be in writing, and in duplicate, and one copy thereof shall be registered at the warden's office." OIL SHALE MINE WORKERS (PENSIONS). See MINING. PENSIONS AND GRATUITIES. See MINING; PUBLIC SERVICE.