Oil Refinery Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited) Act Amendment Act 1959 (WA)

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Iranian Oil Company Limited).

OIL REFINERY INDUSTRY

(ANGLO-IRANIAN OIL COMPANY LIMITED).

8° Elizabeth II., No. XLIV.

No. 44 of 1959.

AN ACT to amend the Oil Refinery Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited) Act, 1952-1956.

[Assented to 10th November, 1959.]

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:—

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and citation.	1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Oil Refinery Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited) Act Amendment Act, 1959.
(2) In this Act the Oil Refinery Industry (Anglo- Iranian Oil Company Limited) Act, 1952-1956, is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Oil Refinery Industry (Anglo- Iranian Oil Company Limited) Act, 1952-1959.

S. 3B

2. The principal Act is amended by adding after added

section three A the following section—

3B. (1) In this section the expression, Validation of acts done by

"Commission" means The State Housing commission.

Commission established and constituted by the

State Housing Act, 1946.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the agreement approved, ratified and confirmed by section three of this Act, the Commission shall take over and assume, and shall be deemed to have taken over and assumed on and from the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, the management, control and administration (i nc 1 u d i n g the financial administration) of the houses erected in accordance with the provisions of subclause (n) of clause four of the agreement.

In order to remove any doubt which, but for the enactment of this section, might exist or arise as to the powers of the Commission in relation to the control, management and administration referred to in subsection (2) of this section, and for the purpose of giving effect to that subsection, it is hereby expressly enacted

(3)

(a) that the Commission is, and shall be deemed to have been on and from the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, authorised and empowered-

(i) to collect, recover and receive all rentals payable by the tenants of the houses erected as aforesaid, and on payment of those rentals to retain the same; and

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(ii) to apply the rentals received, and maintain, deal with and dispose of the houses, in manner provided under the State Housing Act, 1946,

as though the houses were houses subject to all or any of the provisions of that Act;

(b) that all acts, matters or things done, suffered or permitted by the Commis- sion in respect to the control, manage- ment and administration as aforesaid on or after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, shall be deemed to be, or to have been, as valid and effective, or if the case requires, subject to any relevant provision of this Act, or of the agreement, in all respects as if when so done, suffered or permitted, this section had in fact been in operation, and are hereby ratified, confirmed and vali- dated.

(4) The provisions of this section are in addition to, and not in derogation of, the provisions of subsection (2) of section three, or of any other provisions of this Act, or of subclause (n) of clause four, or of any other provisions, of the agreement referred to in subsection (2) of this section, but in the case of any inconsistency between the provisions of this section and the provisions of subsection (2) of section three of this Act, or subclause (n) of clause four of the agreement, the provisions of this section shall prevail.