Public Works Act Amendment Act 1926 (WA)

No. 60.] Public Works. 11926.

PUBLIC WORKS.

17° GEO. V., No. LX.

No. 60 of 1926.

AN ACT to amend Section Sixty-three of the Public Works

Act, 1902.

[Assented to 24th December, 1926.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority

of the same, as follows :-

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Public Works Act

Amendment Act, 1926.

Amendmentlof 2. Section sixty-three of the Public Works Act, 1902,

sec. 63.

is hereby amended as follows :-

(1) Delete paragraph (a) of section sixty-three of the Public Works Act, 1902, and insert the following in lieu thereof :-

See Corn. Act

No. 13 of 1906,	(a) The value of such land with any improvements thereon, or the estate or interest of the claim- ant therein, as on the first day of January
s. 29.

last preceding the notice in the Gazette of

the taking of the land if the notice is gazetted before the thirtieth day of June, or if the notice is gazetted after the thirtieth day of June then as on the first day of July last preceding such notice, without regard to any increased value occasioned by the proposed public work ; or in the case of land acquired for a railway or other work authorised by a special Act, on the first day of January or the first day of July, as the case may be, last preceding the first day of the session of Parliament in which the Act was introduced.

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(2) A proviso is added to the said paragraph (a) as follows :-

Provided that where buildings or other improve-

ments have been made on such land after the first

day of January last preceding the notice in the Gazette,

or, in the case of a railway or other work authorised by a special Act, after the first day of January or the first day of July as the case may be, last preceding the first day of the session as aforesaid, but before

the date of the notice in the Gazette, published under

section seventeen or under paragraph (b) of section ninety-seven of this Act, as the case may be, the value of such buildings or improvements shall be allowed, not exceeding the actual cost.