Native Administration Act Amendment Act 1954 (WA)

No. 60.] Native Administration. [1954.

NATIVE ADMINISTRATION.

3° Elizabeth II., No. LX.

No. 60 of 1954.

AN ACT to amend the Native Administration Act,

1905-1947.

[Assented to 30th December, 1954.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of

the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of

Western Australia, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same,

as follows:—

Short title

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

Administration Act Amendment Act, 1954.

(2) In this Act the Native Administration Act,

1905-1947,

Act No. 14 of 1905 as reprinted with amendments to and including Act No. 4 of 1931 incorporated

1954.] Native Administration. [No. 60.

pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, and further amended by Act No. 42 of 1947,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Native Administration Act, 1905-1954.

2. Section two of the principal Act is amended amended.

by adding at the end of the interpretation "Native"

the following proviso:

Provided that any person of the full blood or of less than the full blood descended from the original inhabitants of Australia who has served in the Territory of New Guinea or beyond the limits of the Commonwealth of Australia as a member of the Naval, Military or Air Forces of the Commonwealth and has received or is entitled to receive an honourable discharge; or who has served a period of not less than six months' full time duty as a member of the Naval, Military or Air Forces of the Common- wealth and who has received or is entitled to receive an honourable discharge, shall be deemed to be no longer a native for the purpose of this or any other Act.