State Housing Act Amendment Act 1950 (WA)

1950.1 State Housing. [No. 27.

STATE HOUSING.

14° and 15° Geo. VI., No. XXVII.

No. 27 of 1950.

AN ACT to Amend the State Housing Act, 1946-1948.

[Assented to 29th December, 1950.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

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 State Housing Short title.

Act Amendment Act, 1950, and shall be read as one

with the State Housing Act, 1946-1948 (Act No. 51 of 1946 as amended by Acts Nos. 27 of 1947 and 19 of 1948), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2. The principal Act as amended by this Act may Citation of principal

be cited as the State Housing Act, 1946-1950.

Act as

amended by

this Act.

3.    Section six of the principal Act is amended s. 6 amended.

by substituting the words, "seven hundred and fifty" for the words, "five hundred" appearing, firstly, in line six and, secondly, in line twelve of the interpretation, "worker".

No. 27.] State Housing. [1950.

s. 22

substituted 4. Section twenty-two of the principal Act is

deleted and the following section is substituted

therefor:-

22. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any Act, the Commission in respect of vacant rateable land acquired within the dis- trict of a local authority, shall make annual payment thereon of the current rate out of the Fund to such local authority; provided that in the case of vacant unsubdivided land no pay- ment shall be made by the Commission until such land has been held vacant by the Commis- sion for a period of at least two years and in the case of subdivided vacant land no payment shall be made by the Commission until such land has been held vacant by the Commission for a period of at least one year.

ss. 26 (1),	5.	The principal Act is amended by substituting
31 (2) (b ),
40 (1) (b),

47 (2) and	the words, "two thousand" for the words, "fifteen
49 (2) (b)
amended.	hundred" in

(a)	line three of the proviso to subsection (1) of section twenty-six;
(b)	lines sixteen and seventeen of subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section thirty-one;
(c)	lines four and five of the proviso to para- graph (b) of subsection (1) of section forty;
(d)	line four of subsection (2) of section forty- seven; and
(e)	line eleven of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section forty-nine.