The Advances to Settlers on Crown Lands Act Further Amendment Act 1912 (SA)

ANNO TERTIO

GEORGII V REGIS.

A.D. 1912.

No. 1.105.

An Act to amend "The Advances to Settlers on Crown

Lands Acts 1908 and 191 I," and for other purposes.

[Assented to, December rpth, 1912.1

E i t Enacted by the Governor of the State of South Australia,

follows: B with the advice and consent of the Parliament thereof, as

1, (1) This Act may be cited alone as " The Advances to Short titles.

Settlers on Crown Lands Act Further Amendment Act, 1912."

(2) a The Advances to Settlers on Crown Lands Acts 1908 and NO. 960 of 1908.

191 1 " and this Act may be cited together as	The Advances to No. 1062 of 1911.
Settlers on Crown Lands Acts 1908 to 1912."

the same is published. (3) In the date of the Government Gazetie in wbich the notice annulling

hereinafter referred to as '' the principal Act," and '' The Advances (3) The Advances to Settlers on Crown Lands Act 1908" is

to Settlers on Crown Lands Act Amendment Act 191 1 " is herein-

after referred to as '' the amending Act of 1911."

2, This Act is incorporated with the other Acts mentioned in Incorporation with

section 1, and those Acts and this Act shall be read as one Act. other Acts.

3. (1) The Treasurer may, from time to time, by notice pub- The Tpasurer.may from tune to t~me

lished in the Government Gazette, fix the annual rate to be paid on a, , the i , , n ,

advances, and may, in the same manner, annul any rate so fixed. advances.

day after the date of the Government Gltzette in which the same is force. (2) Any rate so fixed shall come into force on the fourteenth What rate tobein

published, and shall continue in force until the fourteenth day after

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Moaning of "fixed

rate."	(3) In the principal Act, and in any Act amending that Act (as such Acts are amended by this Act), the expression " the fixed rate " means the rate fixed as aforesaid which is in force a t the time when the advance in question is made.
Coneequent amend-

menta of sections 4. The following amendments are hereby made in the principal

18, 23, and 26 of the	Act :-
principal Act.

(l) In section 18 the words " fixed rate " are substituted for the

words	rate of Five Pounds per centum " in subsections (1) and (4)
thereof.

(2) I n subdivision ( b ) of subsection (2) of section 23 the words

" same annual rate as that which is payable on the advance " are

substituted for the words rate of Five Pounds per centum per

annum. "

(3) I n section 25 the words " same annual rate as that which is payable on the advance" are substituted for the words	rate of
Five Pounds per centum per annum."

Consequent amend-

ment of section 6 of	5. Section 6 of the amending Act of' 1911, is amended by substituting the words "fixed rate " for the words "	rate of five per
amending ~~t of
1911.	centum."
Exieting loans and

mortgagee and 6. Nothing hereinbefore contained shall apply to or ib respect of

agreements therefor	any advance received or mortgage executed before the passing of this
not affected.	Act, or any advance made in fulfilment of any agreement for an advance entered into by the Hoard before the first day of December, nineteen hundred and twelve, or any mortgage to secure the repay- ment of such advance.

The Commissioner 7. (1) The Commissioner of Crown Lands may, on the application

Lands may of a settler, erect and make upon the holding of such settler water

effect improvements,

the which improvements, in the nature of sh2ds having rain water catchment

be deemed to be roofs, and tanks cotmeoted therewith for the storage of such water.

advances.

(2) The settler's application shall-

I. Be made to the said Commissioner, and in the prescribed

form,

11. Contain such particulars as are prescribed, and

111. Be supported by such evidence (if any) as is prescribed, or

as the said Commissioner requires.

(3) The said Commissioner shall not commence to effect any improvement under this section until the settler has entered into an agreement with the said Commissioner, in the prescribed form, agreeing to repay in manner prescribed all moneys expended in effecting the improvements, and to secure the repayment thereof by zxecuting a first mortgage of his holding as hereinafter provided.

(4) The

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(4) The said Commissioner shall by writing signed by him certify the cost of the improvements effected by him under this section on the holding, and his certificate shall be conclusive as to the cost thereof.

( 5 ) The cost so certified shall be deemed to be an advance made to the settler by the Board under the principal Act; and the settler shall execute a mortgage in the prescribed form, to the Board, of his estate and interest in the holding and of the improvements thereon, to secure the payment to the Board of the amount of such advance, with or without such additional security as to the Board may seem fit.

(6) For the purposes of subsection (2) of section 13 of the principal Act (amended as provided by section 5 of the amending Act of 1911) improvements to be effected under this section shall be deemed to be purposes mentioned in subdivision (a) of subsection (1) of the said section 13 ; and the said Commissioner shall in the exercise of his powers under this section have regard to the limita- tions prescribed by the said section 13.

(7) The provisions of section 16 to 32 of the principal Act (as

amended by the amending Act of 1911 and this Act) shall, mutatis

mutandis, apply to advances and mortgages and improvements under

this section and to all matters and things connected therewith,

incidental thereto, or consequent thereon.

(8) 'l'he moneys required by the said Commissioner for effecting improvements under this section shall be supplied to him from time to time by the Treasurer out of the Advances to Settlers Fund; and the Treasurer shall forthwith upon supplying any money as aforesaid give the Board full particulars thereof.

8. Section 13 of the principal Act (amended as provided by Amendmentof section 13 of the

section 5 of the amending Act of 191 1) is amended by inserting the ,fi,,iPa1 A, ~ -

words " or any other purpose " a t the end of subdivision (c) of sub- For what purposes

section (1) thereof. made. advances may be

9, Whereas under The Water Conservation Act, 1886," and Certain lands to be Crown lands for the

The Water Conservation Amendment Act, l 8 89," the Corn missioner ,,,,,, of ad,,,,,

of Water Conservation has power to grant leases of lands and

settlersActs-

premises vested in him or under his control, including certain lands known as the Pekina Creek Irrigation Blocks being the lands more particularly described in the Schedule to this Act: And whereas under various Acts, and otherwise, lands are vested in or under the control of various Ministers of the Crown and other officers and servants of the Crown in their respective capacities as such Ministers,

officers, and servants: Now i t is hereby enacted that-

( a ) The said lands described in the Schedule to this Act; and

( b ) Any other lands vested in or under the control of the Com-

missioner of Water Conservation or any other Minister, officer, or servant of the Crown, as such Minister, officer,

or

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or servant, which the Governor, by proclamation published in the Gooernment Gazette declares .to be Crown lands for the purposes of The Advances to Settlers on Crown Lands Acts 1908 to 1912,"

shall be deemed to be Crown lands within the meaning and for the purposes of the last mentioned Acts, and the definition of the term

No. 1062of 1911 Crown lands " in section 4 of the amending Act of 191 1 shall be

read accordingly.

In the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to

this Bill.

DAY H. BOSAN QUET, Governor.

THE

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THE SCHEDULE. Sec. 9.

THE PEKINA CREEK IRRIOATION BLOCKS.

All those lands being the whole of sections 49, 53, 70, 71, 73a, 73s, and 74,

Hundred of Walloway, County of Ihlhousie.

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Adelaide: By authority, R. E. E. ROOBBR, Government Printer, North Terrace.

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