Village Settlements, etc Act 1895 (SA)

ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO OCTAVO ET QUINQUA-

GESIMO NON0

A.D. 1895.

No. 627.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to Village Settlements, "The Exchange of Lands and Reduction of Rents Act, I 894," and the Act 584 of 1893.

[ A s m ted to, Decewz ber zoth, 1895.1

E it enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Aus- and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parlia-	R tralia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council
ment assembled, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as '' The Village Settlements and shorttitlrle.

Reduction of Rents Amendment Act, 1895."

ciation whose village ahall be so proclaimed a lease in terms of section 5 l of the said Act, 5, E v a y

2. The sum of not exceeding Fifty Pounds in the aggregate for Incraase of amount authorised to be

every villager which the Commissioner of Crown Lands (hereinafter ad,,ced to vil18w

called the Commissioner) is authorised by section 60 of L' The Crown A-iations to One

Lands Amendment Act, 1893," to advance to any one Village Hundred Pounds.

Association is hereby increased to One Hundred Pounds: Provided

that the total advances which may be made by the Commissioner to ad,nce,

Total amount of

the associations heretofore registered shall not exceed Fifty Thousand

Pounds.

3. No advances shall be made to any association until its village advances ta r n h

shall have been proclaimed in the manner provided by sections 47 dtorprml-tiOna

and 48 of The Crown Lands Amendment Act, 1893."

4. The Commissioner shall, within two months after the pub- Leaueto baissued

Iication of the proclamation constituting a village, issue to every asso- after proclamation,

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hmnenta furnished

to Commissioner open	5. Every memorandum to be filed for the purposes of forming an association, and every copy of the 'ules of the association referred to in section 44 of the said Act, and all the accounts of' the associa- tion rendered to the Commissioner, shall be open to public inspection on payment of Two Shillings for every such inspection.
to public inspection.
Powara of Commis-

rioner. 6, The Commissioner shall have the following powers v i th

respect to Village Associations whilst any advances shall remain

unpaid-

I. H c may expel from any association any villager who has become liablc to expulsion under the rules of the associa- tion: Provided that this power shall only be exercised in cases where notice shall have been given by the Commis- sioner to the trustees requiring the expulsion of the villager under the rules, and default shall have been made in such expulsion for at least fourteen days after such notice:

11. H e may control and direct the expenditure of any moneys

advanced to associations:

I n, H e may call upon any trustee of any association to retire from office in any case where, in his opinion, it is desirable for the welfare df the association that such trustee should so retire, and such trustce shall retire accordingly:

IV. He may require any association to increase the number of

villagers so that such number shall not be less than the number who signed the rules first registered in the office of the Commissioner, and, if any such requisition is not

. complied with within six calendar months after the date of service of such requisition upon thc association, may cancel the lease to such association.

Limit to increases of

villagers. 7. The total number of villagers shall not be increased at any time under the preceding section b q o n c ~ five hundred.

of 8. A majority of the villagers present at any meeting held to consider any appeal by any villager against his expulsion bv the Board of Trustees may annul such expulsion; but in thc event of the expulsion not being annulled the villager may, within fourteen days from the date of the meeting, appeal to the Commissioner, who may annul or confirm such expulsion, and his decision shall be final.

Order of retirement 9. One half only of the trustees of any Village Association shall

of trustees.	retire from office every half-year whcrc thc number of trustees is evcn,
and where the number is uneven a majority of onc of such trustees
only shall so retire. The trustees to so retire shall be those longest ill' office without re-election; and where the number cannot thus be made up lots shall he drawn between those who have been an equal time in office to decide which of thern shall so retire, and the retire- ment shall take place accordingly.

10, The

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10. The time for the repayment of the first instalment of First inutalmenta.

advances made to any association is extended to five years from the

date of the advance.

11, The Governor may, by Proclamation published in the Gowrn- Cover of advances.

ment Gazette, terminate the right of any association to any further advance: Provided that no such Proclamation shall issue unless a competent expert appointed by the Commissioner shall have certified in writing to the Commissioner that, after inspection of the village and inquiry into its assets and liabilities, no reasonable ground exists for believing that thc t~ssociation will eventually be able to satisfac- torily discharge its obligations.

12. Applications for the reduction of rent under section S of Commissioner m y reduce rents on

1894," recommendation rent, the Commissioner may make such reduction (not exceeding the reduction recommended by the Surveyor-General) in the rent as he shall think proper, and section 3 of the said Act is hereby amended accordingly.

"The Exchange of Lands and Reduction of Rents Act, shall

not be referred to the Land Board of the District, but, if the S~rve~or-General*

13, The date before which the return of reductions under section Altering date before

hereby altered to the thirticth day of June, one thousand eight beforeParliament.	3 of the last-mentioned Act has to be laid before Parliament is ~~~~~~~;'kia
hundred and ninety-six.

14, The time within which applications for the reduction of rents Time for applicationa

undcr scction 3 of thc last mcritioncd ,4ct inay bc made is hcreby extendcd to the thirticth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

15. The powers conferred by scction 21 of the Act No. 584 of Amendmentofsec-

1893 may be exercised by any person holding lands as stated in such .,, No. 584.	tions 21 and 22 of
section, althongk such lands were not held by such person at the	passing of the said Act; and thc polvcrs confcrrcd by section 22 of	the said Act shall continue after thc expiration of the period
men tionecl in the said swtion.

16, Any lessee of land dealt with by any l lmd Board under any Commissioner may

of the ~ ( G v n Lands Acts may, before thc thirtieth day of ~ u n e, z:::; ~ ~ P, c, ~ ~; ~ -

one thousand eight huntlr~d and ninety-six, apply to the Commis- dation of surveyor-

General.

sioacr in writing to reducc thc uurchasc-moilev of such land. and in writing tn the Comrnissiu~ler that in his opinion a reduction of the purehaw-money of such land is necessary to sccure the profitable occupation thereof the Commissioner may, if he shall think fit so to do, make such redur:tion (not exceeding the reduction recommended by the Surveyor-General) in thc purchase-mo~iey as he &all think puper, and a mernoranchm of such reduction shall bc annexed to or irldol-sed on the leaqe, ailcl such reduced purchaw-money shall be the purchase-money of the land. 17, The

such applicationY shall be rcferkd by the cbmmissioncr to' the

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Holdem of miscel-

laneous leasea for 17. The third section of the Exchange of llands and Reduction

ma cultim- of Rents Act of 1894 shall be read and construed to apply to

miscellaneous leases for grazing and cultivation granted after Decem-

tiOn reduction8 may of rente. for

bes, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, but not by any Land Board: Provided that the holders of such leases may apply for reductions of rent on or before June thirtieth, one thousand eight

hundred and ninety-six

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

this Bill,

T. FOWELL BUXTON, Governor.

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Adelaide : By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government P~inter, North-terrace.