Waste Lands Act 1872 (SA)

ANNO TRICESIMO QUINTO ET TRICESIMO SEXTO

A. D. 1872.

No. 11.

An Act to amend 'C The TVuste Lands Amendment Act, 1867."

[Assented to, 26th June, 1872.1

W HEREAS doubts have arisen as to whether the non-payment of certain r c ~ t s, coniputcd at the rate and in the manner pro-

vided by Sections 7 and 8 of '"rhe Waste Lands Amendment Act, 1867," upon the days appointed by the said Section 8, and the non- payment of certain penalties arising and becoming payablc by reason of every such non-payment of rents, and imposed by Section 13 of

the said Act, have not rcndercd thc lcascs upon which such rents

severally accrued duc liable to forfciturc, under the said Section 13, notwithstanding such rents and penalties havc bccn subsequently paid; and it is expedient to validate such subsequent payments of rent and penalties, and to waive such forfeiture, if any: And whereas it is also expedient to enlarge the time for sending in the returns, and also the time for payment of the rcnts mentioned and appointed in the said Section 8-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and conscnt of the Legislative Council and Rouse of Sssenlbly of the said Pro- vince, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

of this Act, became due on any of the days and times appointed by waivcr or forfeitures, 1. Notwithstanding payment of any rent, which before the passing ~~~;$:~'~;~

Section S of " The \Vaste Lands Amendment Act, 1867," shall not have been madc until some day subsequent to such days and times, and notwithstanding payment of the penalties imposed by Section 13 of the last-mentioned Act, shall not have been made until some day subsequent to the days and times, or some of them, appointed by the said Section 13, such subsequent payments shall be, and be dccmcd to have been, valid payments of such rcnt and penalties pursuant to

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the said Sections 8 and 13 respectively, and shall be, and be deemed to have been, a complete compliance with the terms and requirements of the said last-mentioned Sections; and no lease in respect of which any such rent and penalties shall have accrued due or become payable, shall be deemed to have been forfeited by reason only of the non-payment of such rent or penalties on the precise days or times on which the same were respectively payable, provided that thc same shall subsequently have been paid; nor shall any proceed-

ings be had or taken by the Attorney-General, pursuant to the said

last-mentioned Act, for obtaining an order of the Supreme Court

declaring any such lease forfeited.

Daye for forwarding

returm.

2. The statement or return, in the form in the Second Schedule to The Waste Lands Amendment Act, 1867," contained, shall be filled up and delivered at the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, in lieu and instead of being filled up and forwarded through the medium of the General Post Office to the said Commissioner, as provided by Section 8, of the said last-mentioned Act, and such statement or return shall be filled up and delivered, as afore- said, to the said Commissioner, on or before the twenty-first day of June and the twenty-first day of December, in every year, in lieu and instead of bcing filled up and forwarded to the said Commis- sioner, within three days from the first days of June and December respectively, in every year, as provided by the said Section b.

Daya for payment of

rent.

3. The rent payable under any lease granted pursuant to the

provisions of '' 'the Waste Lands Amendment Act, 1867," shall

be payable and paid at the Treasury in Adelaide, in the said Province, on or before the thirty-first day of July and the thirty-first day of January, in every year, during the continuance of the term of years for which any such lease shall have been granted, in lieu and instead of the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of Decem- ber in every year, as appointed by Section 8 of the said last- mentioned Act.

Short title. 4. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The Waste Lands

Amendment Act, 1872."

In the name and on behalf of the Queen, I hereby

assent to this Bill.

TAMES FERGUSSON, GOT-ernor.

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Adelaide: By authority, W. C. Cox, Government Printer, North-terrwe.