The Chaffey Brothers Amendment Act 1902 (SA)

ANNO SECUNDO

EDWARDI V11 REGIS.

A.D. 1902.

No. 806.

An Act to authorise the Governor to Revoke and Deter-

mine certain Rights, Powers, Estates, and Interests under the Chaffey Brothers Act, the Chaffey Brothers' Agreement, or any Licence Issued pursuant thereto, and for other purposes.

[Assented to, November q t k, 1902.1

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent

.B of the Parliament of South Australia, as follows

1, This Act may be cited as the '' The Chaffey Brothers Amend- short title.

ment Act, 1902."

2,	I n this Act-	Interpretation.
The Chaffey Brothers Act " means Act No. 397 of 1887 :

" The Chaffey Brothers' Agreement " means the agreement a

copy whereof is set out in the Schedule to Act No. 397

of 1887.

3. The Governor may, by Proclamation published in t.he Govern- power of revocation.

ment Gazette, at any time and from time to time--

( a ) Revoke and determine all or any cf the rights, powers,

estate, and interest which may, under and by virtue	t
of the Chaffey Brothers Act, the Chaffey Brothers' Agreement, or any licence issued pursuant thereto, have become vested in George Chaffey and 'William Benjamin Chaffey, or any person or company claiming through or under them, in respect of any portion of the

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2" EDWARDI VII, No. 806.

The C h a f q Brothers Amendment Act.-1902.

two hundred and fifty thousand acres set apart by the Chaffey Brothers Act which shall not have been granted in fee simple, together with the appurtenant water rights and all claims to compensation and other rights or privi- leges, conditions, and liabilities granted, created, or arising under or pursuant to the Chaffey Brothers Act or the Chaffey Brothers' Agreement, and all rights, claims, interests, liens, charges, or incumbran ces created by George Chaffey and William Benjamin Chaffey, or by any person or company claiming through or under them, in respect of the said land:

( b ) Grant to the Renmark Irrigation Trust No. 1 and its servants authority to enter upon any portion or portions of the said two hundred and fifty thousand acres which shall not have been granted in fee-simple, to be defined in such Proclamation, either before or after the issue of any Proclamation issued under sub-section (a) hereof, and there to cut and carry away timber for fuel or for other purposes in connection with irrigation works, without payment and without any further licence or authority, any law or regulation to the contrary notwith- standing.

Land8dedicatedf0r

commonage. 4. The balance of the lands included in the thirty thousand

acres now under license to Chaffev Brothers or their assigns which U have not been granted in fee simpfe shall, until resumed for settle- ment by Proclamation, be dedicated as commonage for the Renmark Settlement, and placed under the control of the Renmark Irrigdtion Trust No. 1, for the benefit of the ratepayers, and on such terms as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may approve.

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

this Rill. S. J. WAY, Lieutenant-Governor.

Adelaide : By authority, C. E. Bsrs~ow, Government Printer, North Temce. .