Time of Registration Extension Act 1920 (WA)

TIME OF REGISTRATION

EXTENSION.

11° GEO. V., No. II.

No. 2 of 1920.

AN ACT to extend the time for the presentation, registra- tion, or lodgment of documents in any public office or registry the operations of which were recently tempor- arily suspended, and to extend the period for, and to validate the stamping of, certain documents.

[Assented to 9th October, 1920.]

B Eit enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Time of Registration Ex-

tension Act, 1920.

[1920. Time of Registration Extension,. No. 2.]

For the purpose of presentation, registration, or lodgment of any document in any public office or registry,	Extension of time
for registration of
documents.
closed on any day upon which such office or registry should have been open to the public between the eleventh and the twenty-ninth days of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, both days inclusive, the days on which any such office or registry was closed shall not be reckoned in computing the time within which the document is required by law to be presented, registered, or lodged, and the time for presenta- tion, registration, or lodgment, or within which. such regis- tration is required by law to be 'effected, shall, by force of this Act, be extended, and shall be deemed to have been ex- tended, accordingly.

2.

3. For the purposes of tins Act, an office or registry shall when office deemed to have

be deemed to have been closed, if owing to the absence of the been &mat

staff, or any of them, it was not practicable to carry on the

operations thereof.

(1.) When the period allowed by law for the stamping of any document without penalty expired on one of the days between the eleventh and the twenty-ninth days of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty (both days inclusive), such period shall by force of this Act be extended and be deemed to have been extended until the expiry from and after the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, of a number of days equal to the number of days be- tween the end of the said period and the said twenty-ninth day of July, and any such document stamped within such ex- tended period shall be deemed to be and to have been as duly stamped as if stamped within the period prescribed by law.

Revenue stamps.

(2.) Any bill of exchange or promissory note drawn or made between the eleventh and twenty-ninth days of July. one thousand nine hundred and twenty, both days inclusive, or within one month after the said twenty-ninth day of July, bearing adhesive stamps for the amount of the duty payable thereon cancelled by the Under Treasurer or any party to the bill or note, shall be deemed to have been duly stamped.

4.

Any document having thereon a certificate in writ- ing under the hand of the Under Treasurer to the effect that 'stamp duty was paid on a date between the eleventh and twenty-ninth days of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, both days inclusive, shall be deemed td have been stamped to the amount of the duty certified as aforesaid as having been paid.

(3.)