Noxious Weeds Act Amendment Act 1971 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

NOXIOUS WEEDS.

No. 15 of 1971.

AN ACT to amend section forty-eight A of the

Noxious Weeds Act, 1950-1970.

[Assented to 4th October, 1971.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Noxious Short title and citation.

Weeds Act Amendment Act, 1971.

(2) In this Act the Noxious Weeds Act, 1950-1970 Vol. 15 Re printed

is referred to as the principal Act.

Acts, as

amended by

Acts Nos. 33

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act g11905:413

may be cited as the Noxious Weeds Act, 1950-1971. of 1989 and	21 and 98
of 1970.

No. 15.] Noxious Weeds. [1971.

S. 4BA

amended. 2. Section 48A of the principal Act is amended by adding after subsection (2) the following sub- section

(2a) Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (2) of this section, where, on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hun- dred and sixty-four or on the thirtieth day of June in any year thereafter up to and including the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy

(a)	a person was the owner of two or more holdings which were contiguous or constituted, or were worked as, one property, and of which the area, in the aggregate, exceeded five acres; and
(b)	any one or more of those holdings was less than five acres in area,

that owner shall be deemed for all purposes to have always been liable to pay the weed rate for every such year on all those holdings so owned by him, and the provisions of the first proviso to subsection (1) of section one hundred and three of the Vermin Act, 1919, as applied by subsection (2) of this section, shall be deemed for all purposes never to have applied to him in respect of every such year. .

(2b) The provisions of subsection (2a) of this section do not apply so as to affect the liability of a person to pay the weed rate in respect of any holding for a year unless the weed rate so payable has been assessed and paid prior to the coming into operation of the Noxious Weeds Act Amendment Act, 1971. .