Property Law Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1971 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

PROPERTY LAW (No. 2).

No. 25 of 1971.

AN ACT to amend section one hundred and two of

the Property Law Act, 1969.

[Assented to 1st December, 1971.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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 Property =iltkviedn.

Law Act Amendment Act (No. 2), 1971.

(2) In this Act the Property Law Act, 1969 is Act No. 32 o11969.

referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Property Law Act, 1969-1971.

No. 25.] Property Law (No. 2). [1971.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date

to be proclaimed.

Amendment	3.	Section 102 of the principal Act is amended
to s. 102.
(Capacity to
procreate or

bear a child.)	(a)	by adding after the word "child", being the last word in subsection (1), the words "or whether any person would on or after a relevant date adopt a child";
(b)	by substituting for the word "and", at the end of paragraph (a) of subsection (2), a passage as follows:-

(aa) a woman will not, after she has

attained the age of fifty-five years,

adopt a child; and ; and

(c) by adding after the word "child", in line six of subsection (4), the passage "or, in the case of the presumption mentioned in paragraph (aa) of that subsection (2), the subsequent adoption of a child".