Narrogin-Wickepin Railway Act 1907 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO SEPTIMO

EDW_L-VRDI SEPTINII REGIS,

XXVI.

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No. 26 of 1907.

AN ACT to authorise the construction of a

Railway from Narrogin to Wickepin.

[Assented to 20th December, 1907.]

and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this presentBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows

1.     This Act may be cited as the Narrogin- Wickepin Railway Short title.

Act, 1907.

Narrogin to Wickepin with all necessary. proper, and usual works struct. 2. It shall be lawful to construct and maintain a railway from Authority to eon-

and conveniences in connection therewith, along the line described

in the Schedule to this Act.

3.      Notwithstanding anything contained in the Public Works Deviation.

Act, 1902, it shall be lawful for the Minister for Works to deviate from the line as described in such Schedule to the extent of five miles on either side thereof.

1907, No. 26.j Narrogin-Wickepin Railway. [7 EDIT. VII.

Power to Governor 4. At ally time after the passing of this Act, and until the

to compulsorily pm.- expiration of twelve months from the publication of notice in thechase lend within 15 miles of railway Government Gazette declaring the railway open for traffic, the

Governor may, with the object of encouraging the cultivation and settlement of the land, compulsorily purchase any land in parcels of not less than one thousand acres, each parcel being the property of one person or two or more persons jointly or in common, and situated within fifteen miles on either side of the line of railway, and which land is certified by the Minister for Lands as suitable for closer agricultural settlement : Provided that no land shall be compulsorily purchased until the Land Purchase Board has favour- ably reported thereon.

Purchase money to 5.

On the determination by the Governor from time to time to within such defined limits may be taken under the Public -Works Act, 1902, and the provisions of that Act shall apply, and the amount of the purchase- money shall be determined as compensation is determined under that Act :

be determined

under Public works	exercise the power conferred by the last preceding section, any land
Act, 1902.
But no regard shall be had to any. increased value occasioned by the railway, and the purchase money shall be assessed at the probable and reasonable price which the land, with any improvements thereon, or the estate or interest of the claimant therein, might have been expected to realise if offered for sale at the date the land was taken, and if the railway had not been constructed or authorised.

Governor may re- 6.

Before the purchase money is paid for any land compulsorily purchased under the authority of this Act, the Governor may require the claimant to execute a surrender, conveyance, or transfer of the land to the Crown, or as the Governor may direct, free from all encumbrances.

quire surrender,

etc., to be made.

All such land shall be dealt with under the provisions of the Agricultural Lands Purchase Act, 1896, and the purchase money may be paid out of any moneys authorised to be raised and expended by that Act, or as therein prescribed.

Application of 60 7.

Viet., No. 26.

EDW.. Sarrogin-Wickepin Railway. [1907, No. 26.

SCHEDULE.

NARROGIN-WICKEPIN RAILWAY.

DESCRIPTION OF LINE OF RAILWAY.

Commencing at a. point in or near Narrogin Townsite, on the Great Southern Railway, and proceeding thence in a generally Easterly direction for about fl miles; thence in a generally North-Easterly direction for about 22 miles, and terminating at a point in or near the Western boundary of Williams Location 4914, as more particularly delineated and coloured red on map marked P.W.D., W. A., 12853, deposited as provided for by 55 Victorim, No. 34, Section 10. Total length about 29,=, miles.

By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.