Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act 1932 (WA)

No. 28.1 Municipal Corporations. [1932,

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

23° GEO. V., No. XXVIII.

No. 28 of 1932,

AN ACT to amend Division 6 of Part XXIII, of the Muni-

cipal Corporations Act, 1906.

[Assented to 19th December, 1939.1

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:-

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the llLnnicipal Corporations

Act Amendment Act, 1932.

Amendment of

B. 407. 2. Section four hundred and seven of the Municipal Cor-

porations Act, 1906, is hereby amended by the addition of a

subsection, as follows:

(4.) Provided that no person who, as being trustee of any estate by virtue of any proceeding under the Bank- ruptcy Act, 1924-1932, or the liquidator in the winding up of a company under the Companies Act, 1893, has become the owner of any rateable land, shall on that account be personally liable to pay out of his cwn moneys or otherwise than out of the estate in his hands any rates due on such land when he becomes owner thereof as aforesaid, or be so personally liable as aforesaid to pay any rates assessed on such land thereafter, if he proves to the satisfaction of and obtains a certificate in writing from the Minister that a continuance of his ownership of the said land is essential in the interests of that estate, or that he is unable to dispose of the said land.