Vermin Act Amendment Act 1919 (WA)

1919.] Vermin. [No. 39.

VERMIN.

10° GEO. V., No. XXVII.

No. 39 of 1919.

AN ACT to amend the Vermin Aet, 1918.

[Assented to 17th December, 1919.]

B E it 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:—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Vermin Act Amendment Short title.

Act, 1919.

2. Section two of the Vermin Act, 1918, is hereby amended Amendment of

by the addition of the following words :—"Provided that the section

power of imposing rates in the other portion of the State

under any Act mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act

shall be subject to a limitation similar to that contained in

the proviso to subsection (2) of section fifty-nine of this

Act."

3. Section forty-five of the Vermin Act, 1918 (hereinafter Amendment

called the principal Act), is hereby amended, as from the 0f section'

commencement thereof, as follows :—

(i)    The words "situated within the South-West Division of the State" are excised from paragraph 1 and also from paragraph 2.

(ii)    The words "and Part IV. of that Act shall apply to its proceedings" are inserted in paragraph 1, after the words "the Roads Act, 1911."

(iii)    The following paragraph is added to the said sec-

tion:—

(3.) Whenever the boundaries of any road dis- trict which are the same as those of a vermin dis• trict are altered, but the road district continues to be wholly comprised in that part of the State to which this Act applies, the boundaries of the vermin district shall, by force of this Act, but sub- ject to any order or direction of the Governor at any time made under this Act, be correspondingly

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altered to the intent that (subject as aforesaid) the vermin district shall continue to be co- terminous with the road district.

Amendment

Section fifty of the principal Act is hereby amended, as from the commencement thereof, by the deletion of the word "elective," and of the words "situated within the South- West Division of the State."

of section 50. 4.

Section fifty-nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion in paragraph 2, after the word "situated," of the following words :—"but a minimum rate of two shillings and sixpence may be levied on any rateable holding the annual rate in respect of which (whether on the area or on the unimproved capital value) would not amount to two shillings and sixpence."

Amendment of 5.

section 59.

Amendment 6.

Section seventy-eight of the principal Act is hereby amended, by the addition of the following words to subsec- tion four:—"or in the prevention of the straying of stock onto or from his holding."

of section 78.

Amendment	7.	Section ninety-four of the principal Act is hereby
of section 94.

See Vic. No.	amended, by the deletion of the words "Minister or board,"
2745, s. 6.	and the substitution therefor of the words ''inspector or
S.A. No.
1181, s. 19.	authorised person to whom the Minister or board has for the time being assigned, by either special or general authority, the duty of inspecting such holding"; and is further amended by adding after the word "destroy," in the second line, the word "all."

Amendment of 8.

Section one hundred and four of the principal Act is hereby amended by the excision of the words "the Chief In- spector shall, if so required in writing by the owner of any fence," and the substitution of the words "the owner of any fence may by writing under his hand require the Chief In- spector or the board of any district in which the fence is situ- ated to inspect the fence or cause it to be inspected, and the Chief Inspector or board shall."

section 104.

Amendment 9.

Section one hundred and fourteen of the principal Act is hereby amended, by the repeal of all words after the first paragraph and the substitution of the following words :—"It is a defence to a charge under this section to prove that the rabbit was imported from beyond the State or was killed eastward of the said Government fence."

of section

114.