Western Lands (Amendment) Act 1931 (NSW)

West«m Lands (Amendment) Act.

WESTERN L\N D S (AMENDMENT)

ACT.

Act No. 8, 1931.

Qiorje V,	An Act to declare the extensions of certain leases under the Western Lands Act, 1901, invalid; to repeal certain provisions of that Act inserted by the Western Lands (Amend­ ment) Act, 1930; to amend the said Acts; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 12th March, 1931.]
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T ) E it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, r i by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­ lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—
Short title.	1 , This Act may be cited as the “ Western Lands (Amendment) Act, 1931,” and shall be read and construed with the Western Lands Act, 1901, as amended by subsequent Acts, which Act as so amended is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
A ct No. 70,1901.

Amendment of 2 , (1) The Principal Act is amended—

Sec. 17b.	(a) by omitting section 17b ;
Sec. 18.	(b) by omitting from section eighteen the words “ subject to the provisions of section 17b of this Act ” ;
ehs. C, D, E.	(c) by omitting Schedules C, D, and E ;
Sec. 19.	(d) by omitting from section nineteen the words “ subject to the provisions of section 19a of this Act ” ;
Sec, 19a,	(e) by omitting section 19a ;

(f)

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(f)	by omitting from section	28a, wherever
occurring, the words “ one	thousand nine 2**-

hundred and sixty-eight ” and by inserting in lieu thereof the words “ one thousand nine hundred and forty-three ” ;

(g) by omitting section 44b . Sec. 44b.

(2) This section shall be deemed to have com- Retroepeotire

menced on the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand

nine hundred and thirty.

3 . (1) Section eight of the Interpretation Act of Exclusion of i

1897 shall not extend to this Act.

(2) No compensation shall be payable by the Crown in respect of tlie operation of any provision of this Act.

4 . (1) No exten.sion ot a lease under the provisions Extensions

of section 17b ot tlie Principal Act, hereby repealed,

shall he valid for any purpose whatsoever.

(2 i Where any endorsement of an extension of a

lease under the provisions of section 17b of the Principal Act, hereby repealed, has been made on the instrument of lease, the liolder of the lease shall lodge such instru­ ment of lease at tlie office of the Western Land Board for the cancellation of the endorsement within the time and subject to the penalty prescribed by the regulations.

(3) Any lease in respect of which an application for extension has been made in pursuance of any section repealed by this Act, shall he held subject in all respects to the provisions of the Western Lands Act of 19uL as, amended by subsequent Acts and this Act.

5 . The Act mentioned in the Schedule to this Act Repeals,

is, to the extent therein indicated, hereby repealed.

SCHEDULE.

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Xo. of Act. Short Title. Extent of Repeal.

1930 Xo. 16 Western Lands (Amend- Sections two and three,

ment) Act, 1930.

So much of section ) (a) as

inserted section 44b.

Paragraph (b) of section four.

Paragraph (g) (ii) of section

five.