Unclaimed Money Amendment Regulations 1996 (WA)

20 August 19961	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	4069
W301
UNCLAIMED MONEY ACT 1990

UNCLAIMED MONEY AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1996

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.      These re lations may be cited as the Unclaimed Money Amendment

Regulations 1 F 96.

Principal regulations

2. In these regulations the Unclaimed Money Regulations 1991' are

referred to as the principal regulations.

[* Published in Gazette 12 April 1991, pp. 1664-66.

For amendments to 11 July 1996 see 1995 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 284.1

Regulation 2 amended

3. (1) Re lation 2 (1) of the principal regulations is amended by deleting

“The" and su F stituting the following -

" Subject to subregulation (la), the ".

(2) After regulation 2 (1) of the principal regulations the following

subregulation is inserted -

(la) The date for the making of a notification of prescribed

retained money to which regulation 2A applies, is 31 January 1997.

Regulation 2A inserted

4.      After regulation 2 of the principal regulations, the following regulation is

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inserted -

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Exemption for certain mining survey fees

2A. (1) A notification under section 9 (3) (a) (i) of the Act in relation to prescribed retained money to which this regulation ap lies, need not, if that information cannot reasonably be ascertaineb: set out -

(a) the name of the person on whose behalf the money is held

or to whom it is liable to be paid;

(b)	the address of the owner of the money; and
(C)	the date on which the holder came into possession of the money.

(2) This regulation applies to prescribed retained money that -

was paid by the owner to the Director General of Mines (as

(a) defined in the Mining Act 1978) as a survey fee under section 199 of the Mining Act 1904 during the period

be 'nning on 1 July 1980 and ending on 31 December 1981;

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(b) was paid by the Director General of Mines, under section 28

of the Audit Act 1904, to the Treasurer to be placed to the

credit of the Trust Account established by that Act. 9 ,

Regulation 4A inserted

5.      After regulation 4 of the principal regulations, the following regulation is

inserted -

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Exemption from advertising for small amounts

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set out the amount and rescribed particulars of money notified to the	(1) An advertisement under section 11 (1) of the Act need not
Treasurer or received in t e Treasury if -	?l

(a)

the amount of the money is less than $100; and

(b)

the advertisement -

(i)	sets out the name of the person who made the notification or payment;
(ii)	kept under subregulation (2) (ay; and

states that details of the mone are included in a list

sets out the places where that list is available for

(iii)    public inspection.

(2) The Treasurer must -

in respect of each advertisement under subregulation (l),

(a) keep a list of the money to which the advertisement relates;

and

(b) make that list available for public inspection, without charge, a t such places as the Treasurer considers appropriate.

following particulars of notifications to the Treasurer and payments (3) To the extent that they are known to the Treasurer, the

received in the Treasury are to be included in a list kept under

subregulation (2) (a) -

(a)	the name and address of the owner of the money;
(b)	the amount of the money;
(c)	the name and address of the person who made the notification or payment;
(d)	into possession of the money; and a brief description of the manner in which that person came
(e)	the date on which that person came into possession of the
money. ,,

By His Excellency's Command,

J. PRITCHARD, Clerk of the Council.