Western Australian Aged Sailors and Soldiers' Relief Fund Amendment Act 1934 (WA)

No. 10.] Western Australian Aged Sailors and [1934.

Soldiers' Relief Fund.

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN AGED SAILORS

AND SOLDIERS' RELIEF FUND.

25° GEO. V., No. IX.

No. 10 of 1934.

AN ACT to amend the Western Australian Aged Sailors

and Soldiers' Relief Fund Act, 1932.

[Assented to 9th November, 1934.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Western Australian Aged

Sailors and Soldiers' Relief Fund Amendment Act, 1934, and

shall be read as one with the Western Australian Aged Sailors and Soldiers' Relief Fund Act, 1932, hereinafter re- ferred to as the principal Act.

Amendment of s. 2 2. Section two of the principal Act is amended by insert-

ing therein a definition, as follows :—

"The Annual Poppy Day Appeal" means an annual appeal of a kind similar to the appeal heretofore known as "the Poppy Day Appeal," and heretofore conducted annually by or under the authority of the League since the Great War, 1914-1918, on Armistice Day.

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3. A section is added to the principal Act after section New section.

seven, as follows:-

8. (1.) From and after the commencement of this ctufletYmtr l- al

section it shall be lawful for the League, but for no other Poppy Day AppeaL

body or person, to hold, manage, and conduct in Western

Australia the Annual Poppy Day Appeal.

(2.) The Annual Poppy Day Appeal shall be con- ducted in accordance with the regulations.

(3.) Any person who, in contravention of this section, conducts, or attempts to conduct, or permits or suffers to be conducted, or who aids in, abets, takes part in, or whether with or without personal reward or remunera- tion as a servant or agent, or otherwise engages in the conduct of the Annual Poppy Day Appeal, will be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: One hundred pounds.

(4.) Where any Annual Poppy Day Appeal is con- ducted in contravention of this section, any moneys col- lected by such appeal shall be held by the person collect- ing or having such moneys in Ms possession in trust for the League, and such person, on demand, shall pay such moneys to the League, and until such moneys are so paid to the League the amount thereof shall be a debt owing to the League from the person for the time being holding the same, and shall be recoverable by the League from such person in any court of competent jurisdiction.