Stamp Act Amendment Act 1960 (WA)

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STAMP.

9° Elizabeth II., No. XXII.

No. 22 of 1960.

AN ACT to amend the Stamp Act, 1921-1959.

[Assented to 11th October, 1960.]

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:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Stamp Act and citation.

Amendment Act, 1960.

(2)	In this Act the Stamp Act, 1921-1959, is Reprinted as	approved for
reprint 1st

referred to as the principal Act.

May, 1958,

in vol. 12

of the

Reprinted

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may Acts and	further
amended by

be cited as the Stamp Act, 1921-1960. Acts Nos. 64 and 72 of 1959.

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

mentor

to be fixed by proclamation.

S. 49A

added. 3. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section forty-nine, the following section:-

Commis-

sioner may	49A. (1) Where, on written application being
exempt

cheques	made to the Commissioner under this section,
drawn by
charitable	the Commissioner is satisfied that for the
bodies etc.
purposes of this section the applicant is

(a) a charitable body;

(b)	a body established for community welfare purposes;
(c)	a Friendly Society registered under the Friendly Societies Act, 1894; or
(d)	a body established for patriotic pur- poses,

the Commissioner may grant the applicant a

written certificate to that effect.

(2)

Duty shall not be charged on cheques or orders for the withdrawal of moneys deposited in any bank by any of the bodies referred to in subsection (1) of this section to which a certificate under that subsection has been granted.

(3)

Any body of the kind referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of subsection (1) of this section may make the application referred to in that subsection.

Second

Schedule 4. The Second Schedule to the principal Act is

amended. amended

(a) by adding after the word, "account" being the last word under the heading, "Exemp- tions" under the heading "Bill of Exchange or Promissory Note", the following:

Cheques for the withdrawal of moneys deposited in any bank by a charitable body, a body established for com- munity welfare purposes, a Friendly

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Society registered under the Friendly Societies Act, 1894, or a body estab- lished for patriotic purposes to which the Commissioner has granted a certificate under section forty-nine A of this Act. ;

(b)

by substituting for the words, "the State or Commonwealth Savings Bank by Friendly Societies or other similar bodies", in lines two, three and four of the second paragraph under the heading, "Exemption" under the heading, "Cheque or Order payable on demand", the passage, "any bank by a charitable body, a body established for community welfare purposes, a Friendly Society registered under t h e Friendly Societies Act, 1894, or a body established for patriotic purposes, to which the Commis- sioner has granted a certificate under section forty-nine A of this Act"; and

(c)

by substituting for the words, "the Govern- ment", in line two of item (10) under the heading, "Exemptions", under the heading, "Receipt (not being a receipt given by or to a Building Society)", the word, "any."