Pearling Act Amendment Act 1928 (WA)

1928.] Pearling. [No. 7.

PEARLING.

19° GEO. V., No. VII.

No. 7 of 1928.

AN ACT to amend the Pending Act, 1912-1924.

[Assented to 151li November, 1928.]

-DE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by .11 .11 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 :—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Pearling Act Amend- Short title.

711C721 Act, 1928, and shall be read as one with the Pearling

Act, 1912-1924, hereinafter referred to as the principal

Act.

2.    Section twenty-two of the principal Act is hereby Amendment of

amended by adding to subsection (1) thereof the following

words :-

" and he shall be deemed a disqualified person in respect of any vessel or interest in any vessel in excess of that number that he may acquire."

3.    Subsection (9) of section thirty-three of the principal sA whnent of

Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following • • words :-

" and includes a person to whom (either individually or as one of a class) a ship license should not be granted, renewed, or transferred by the licensing officer by reason of any direction by the Minister under section sixteen.

If under section sixteen of this Act the granting, renewal, or transfer to any person of a ship license has been refused, by direction of the Minister, such person shall be deemed an unqualified person within the meaning of those words in this section until such disqualification is removed by order in writing of the

Minister."