Vermin Proof Fencing Act 1897 (SA)

ANNO SEXAGESIMO ET SEXAGESIMO PRIM0

A.D. 1897.

An Act to amend the Vermin-proof Fencing Acts, 1890

and 1894, and for other purposes.

[Assented t o, December n t h, 1897.1 ,

it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of

the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

BE 1. This Act may be cited as " The Vermin-proof Fencing short title.

Amendment Act, 1897."

2. Loans hereafter granted, or granted since the first day of Loanatobeu intercat

January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and paid to at four per cent.

District Councils, Trusts, or Vermin Boards, shall bear interest a t

Four Pounds per centum per annum, and the principal, with the

other place. 6. Section

interest thereon, shall be repaid in twenty equal yearly instalments at the rate of Seven Pounds Seven Shillings and Two Pence for every One Hundred Pounds advanced.

3, The word " occupier " in " The Vermin-proof Fencing Act, Loans to holdera of

1890," shall be deemed to have included and to include any person educational leasen.

holding a perpetual lease of lands granted or dedicated by way of

endowment for education.

4, Lands within the limits of District Councils may, under section Vermin Diatricte

17 of '' The Vermin Districts Act, 1894," be declared to be Vermin CoullCns.	within District
Districts.

5, No meeting of a Vermin Board need be held within the Meeting of ~6-u

district. Vermin Boards may from time to time fix the place where ~ o ~ r d,

tuture meetings shall be held, and may adjourn any meeting to any

2 60" & 6r" VICTORIK, No. 679.

The Vermin-proof Fencing Amendment Act.-1897.

Ooat of maintaining

fences. 6;. Section 76 of " The Vermin 1)istricts Act, 1894," is hereby

repealed, and the following section enacted in lieu thereof:-

" 76. The cost of maintaining and keeping in repair any fence

erected or purclrased by any Board shall be borne by such Board; but where any such fence is on the boundary or portion of the boundary between two districts the cost of maintaining and keeping in repair such fence shall be borne equally by the Boards of the two districts."

Veeting of property

on extinction of	7. I n the event of any Vermin I)istrict ceasing to be a Vermin District the Vermin Board of such district shall be deemed to be abolished, and all fences erected or purchased by such Board and all property of the Board shall vest iu the Crown. And thereupon the Crown shall have the same pon7ers, duties, and rights in reference to such fences and the declaration and levying of rates as such Vermin.Board would h a w possessed had such Hoard not ceased to exist, and the rights and privileges of every person who had or shall thereafter have made any payment in respect of any such fences pursuant to '"The Vermin Districts Act, 1894," or any other Vermin Fencing Act for the time being in force, shall remain as if such Board had not ceased to exist.
Boards.
Limit of rate.	8, The limit of the amount of the rate which may be declared by the Board under section 83 of " The Vermin Districts Act, 1894,'' is hereby increased to One Pound per square mile.

Exemption fromrate. 9, NO owner holding less than a quarter of a square mile of

property in the district shall bc liable to pay any rate, or be entitled to take any part in relation to the formation of a Vermin District, or

bc capable of voting for the election of a member of a Board.

l~a~eon~m~l lho ld ing. 10. The rate payable by each owner holding less than one square

mile of property within the district shall be for each quarter and fraction of a quarter of a square mile one-fourth of the rate fixed per square mile.

Vermin-proof fence

to be invested in 11. All vermin-proof fences erected by, or which shall be pur-

chased or acquired by any Board under " ' b e Vermin Districts Act,

Vermin Board.

1894," or any Verrniu Fencing Act, shall be deemed to be vested in

such Board, and a11 fences which shall be erected, purchased, or acquired by two or more Boards sllall be deemed to belong to and shall bc apportioned by the C'omrnissioner between such Boards proportionately to the amount coutributed by them respectivelv in erecting, purchasing, or acquiring such fcnces: Provided, how&er, that any fence erected by any Hoard pursuant to section 149 of G The Vermin Districts Act, 1894," shall cease to be vested in any Board from the time of the Board receiving the cost of such erection.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to

this Bill.

T. F. BUXTON, Governor.

Adelaide : By authority, C. E. BMSTOW, Government Printer, Nofth-terrace.