Waste Lands Act 1869 (SA)

ANNO TRICESIMO TERTIO

No. 4..

An Act to amend the Waste La~ ids Anaendmmt Act, 1868-9.

[Assented to, 9th February, 1870.1

W HEREAS it is expedient to amend " The Waste Lands Preamble, Amendment Act, 1868-9"-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. The term of credit upon which the waste lands of the Crown Term of credit to be fivo years instead of

may be sold by virtue of the said Act shall be five ycars instead of four.

four years as therein provided, and the said Act, and the Schedules

thereto, shall be read and construed as if the words " Five years" had been therein inserted throughout in place of the words " Four years:" Provided that, at the expiration of the five years, it may be optional on the part of the occupier to pay the purchase money, or have a renewal for not more than three years on payment, in advance, of intxest at the rate of five per cent. per annum.

set out in the Fifth SchecluIe to the said Act, the extent of the Schedule to Act. 2. In the fourth condition contained in the Form of Agreement AmcndmentofFifih

substantial and permanent improvements to be made by the pur- chaser during the said tcrm to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council shall be amended, and shall be and read as follows:-

During the first two years Five Shilliilgs per acre:

Before the end of the third year a total of Seven Shillings and

Sixpence per acre:

l Before the end of the fourth year a total of Ten Shillings per acre:

And the following words shall also be added to such condition-

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Waste Lands Amendment Act.1869-70.

But, during the first year of the term, proof shall be givcn to the

satisfaction of the Governor in Council that the purchaser is

Proviso.	bon& Jide occupying the said land :" Provided that every agreement for sale and purchase on credit already made under the authority of the said ,4ct, and entered into in the form in the said Fifth Schedule there- to contained, shall be and remain in as full force and virtue as if this
Purchaser may mr-	Act had not been passed; but it shall, nevertheless, be lawful within
render old agreement	two calendar months after this Act shall have come into operation,
upon entering into	for any purchaser holding any such agreement as last aforzsaid, to
fresh agreement
under thia Act.	surrender the same upon his entering into a fresh agreement under this Act, such fresh agreement to bear even date with the agreement
so surrendered,
Lands held on credit,

time for issue grmt 3. If any purchaser on credit shall have completed all the im-

may be rhcrtened.

provements rcquired by his agreement, and to the value of at least

Ten Shillings an acre, he shall, at any time after three years bond$&

residence, be entitled to pay the amount of the purchase money and

receive a grant for the land.

Commencement of

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4. -This Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by the Governor by proclamation in the South Australian Governmeltt Gazette, such day not being less than seven days nor more than

twentyeight days after this Act shall have been assented to by the

Governor on behalf of Her Majesty.

Incorporation. 5. This Act and The Waste Lands Amendment Act, 1868-9,"

(save in RO far as the same is altered by this Act, or is inconsistent

therewith) shall be read together and be construed as one Act.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

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