Rural Relief Fund Act 1935 (WA)

1935.] Rural Relief Fund. [No. 17.

RURAL RELIEF FUND.

26° Gno. V., No. XVII.

No. 17 of 1935.

AN ACT to provide for a Fund to be called "The Rural Relief Fund" and to make provision for the administration of that Fund by trustees; to en- able the trustees to issue stay orders to farmers where no voluntary arrangement has been come to between a farmer and his creditors under the Farmers' Debts Adjustment Act, 1930-1934; to amend the said Act, and for other relative pur- poses.

[Assented to 12th November, 1935.]

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western13E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis-

Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1.    This Act may be cited as the Rural Relief Fund Short title,

Act, 1935.

2.    In this Act, unless inconsistent with the context, Definition,.

the following terms have the following meanings:

"Crown" includes any body corporate or unincor- porate constituted under the law of the Com- monwealth or of the State whose funds have been provided wholly or in part by the Com- monwealth or by the State or whose obligations are wholly or in part guaranteed by the Commonwealth or by the State, but does not in- clude a municipal corporation or other loe2 governing body, or a health board.

"Director" means the Director appointed for tho time being under the Farmers' Debts Adjust- ment Act, 1930-1934.