Northern District Special Revenue amendment (1885) (WA)

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No. VIII.

AN ACT to amend the Northern District

Special . Revenue Acts of 1873 and 1878.

[Assented to, 18th September, 1885.]

HEREAS it is expedient that the Governor in Council should

Wshall be the authorities to issue licenses under the said Acts: Be ithave power to appoint from time to time the persons who

enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legisla- tive Council thereof, as follows:-

1.     THE Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, shall Governor in Council

have power to appoint from time to time a person or persons to be to appoint licensing

the authority at any of the ports of the Colony to issue licenses and authorities'

to do all other things which may lawfully be done by the Licensing

Board under " The Northern District Special Revenue Act, 1873," and " The Northern District Special Revenue Act, 1873, Amend- ment Act, 1878," and from time to time to remove such persons from their appointments and to appoint other persons in their places.

2. SUCH appointments shall be duly published in the Govern- ninte

ment Gazette, and a copy of the Gazette containing a notification of to	Governmen	Casette
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any such appointment as aforesaid, and purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, shall be received as sufficient evidence at all times and in all places that the persons therein named as having been appointed have been duly appointed in that behalf. Provided

that the omission to publish any such appointment in the Gazette as

aforesaid shall not in any way affect the validity of such appoint-

ment.

B. WHENEVER the words "licensing board" are used in the said Acts, such words shall be held to mean the person or persons respectively appointed as aforesaid ; and the words " port of Cossack," as used in the 5th section of the " Northern District Special Revenue Act, 1873, Amendment Act, 1878," shall mean the port of the officer who shall have granted a license as aforesaid ; and the words " Prin- cipal Officer of Customs" in the said section shall mean the officer who shall have granted the said license ; and the words " at the said port" in the said section shall mean at the port of the officer who shall have granted a license as aforesaid.

Interpretation.

4. NOTHING in this Act shall affect the validity of any 'id license already granted, or any rights accrued, or any liabilities incurred, under the said recited Acts, before this Act shall have come into operation, and all proceedings in respect of such rights or liabilities may be commenced, had, and continued as if this Act had not passed.

Saving of rights

5, THIS Act shall come into operation on the first day

Commenuement of

of October, 1885, but it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council

Act.

to make any appointments under this Act previously to its coming

into operation.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

P. NAPIER BROOINIE, Governor.

By Authority : RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.