Vermin Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

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VERMIN.

12° Elizabeth II., No. XXXII.

No. 32 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend the Vermin Act, 1918-1962.

[Assented to 13th November, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Vermin Act

Amendment Act, 1963.

Reprinted as

approved for (2) In this Act the Vermin Act, 1918-1962, is

reprint, 27th referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Vermin Act, 1918-1963.

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2. Section one hundred and two A of the 2n:n2iclked.

principal Act is amended

(a)	by substituting for the word, "rabbits" where appearing in lines two and three of subsection (1), and again, in line three of subsection (2), the words, "animals or birds", in each case;
(b)	by substituting for the word, "rabbits" in line one of each of paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of subsection (4), the words, "any animals or birds specified in the notice", in each case; and
(c)	by substituting for the words, "rabbits inthe part of the State mentioned" in line two

of subsection (6), the passage, "any animal or bird specified, in the part of the State mentioned,".

3. Section one hundred and three of the principal amended.

Act is amended

(a)	by substituting for the words, "Protection Board", in line three of subsection (1), the words, "Commissioner of Taxation";
(b)	by substituting for the word, "ten", in the first proviso to subsection (1), the word, "five";
(c)	by substituting for paragraph (c) of the fifth proviso to subsection (1) the following paragraph

(c) all land owned by, or vested in,—

any person, society or body and

(i)  occupied, or used exclusively for, or in connection with, any public hospital, benevolent institution, charitable pur- pose, mechanics institute, school of art, or any church, chapel or school attached to, or connected with, or the

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residence of a minister of religion ministering at, a place of public worship;

(ii)

a municipality or other

statutory public body;

(iii) a religious body; or

(iv)   an organisation formed and operating for a charitable purpose;

and

(d) by substituting for subsection (2) the following subsection

(2) The Commissioner may, by one assessment, assess both the rate payable under the provisions of this section and any rate that is, or may become, payable under the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1950, and the sum of the two rates as so assessed, or, failing such assessment, the rate payable under the provisions of this section, is payable on demand and is recoverable as if it were land tax of which payment is in default.