Vermin Act Amendment Act 1926 (WA)

1926.] Vermin. [No. 10.

VERMIN.

17° GEO. V., No. X.

No. 10 of 1926.

AN ACT to amend the Vermin Act, 1918.

[Assented to 7th October, 1926.]

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 Jet Amendment Short title.

Act, 1926, and shall be read as one with the Vermin Act, 1918, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2.    Section one hundred A of the }principal Act (inserted ;tinter of

by the Vermin Act Amendment Act, 1925) is hereby amended

as follows:—

(a) By the excision of the words "annually on de- mand" in the first subsection thereof, and by the inser- tion, after the first paragraph of the said subsection, of a paragraph as follows:

"The rate is imposed and shall be assessed for the financial year commencing on the first day of July, 1926, and for each succeeding financial year, and shall be payable (on demand) by the person who at noon on the last preceding thirtieth day of June was the owner of the holding."

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(b) By the substitution for subsection (3) thereof of

a subsection as follows :—

(3) All rates recovered under this section shall be paid to the credit of an account to be kept at the Treasury, and, after payment of the cost of collection and subject to regulation, shall be applied under the direction of the Minister in payment of such uniform bonus for the destruc- tion of wild dogs, eaglehawks, and foxes, and such other vermin as may be prescribed.

Bight of tetgy. 3. A section is inserted in the principal Act as fol-

lows:—

81A. Whenever a vermin fence or rabbit-proof fence is erected or about to be erected, or a fence is made or is about to be made vermin proof or rabbit proof, be- tween the holdings of adjoining owners, the owner or occupier of the land -fenced or intended to be fenced shall at all times have the right to enter upon the land of an adjoining owner or occupier for the purpose of erecting, maintaining, repairing, and renewing such fence