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WESTERN LANDS (AMENDMENT)
ACT.
| . | Act No. 66, 1932. |
| An Act to provide that the title conferred by certain leases shall be a lease in perpetuity; | ’ — |
to amend the law relating to the withdrawal of lands held under lease; to validate certain matters; and for these and other purposes to amend the Western Lands Act of 1901, as amended by subsequent Acts; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 30th December, 1932.]
T ) E it enacted l)y tlic King’s Most Excellent Majesty,
1 1 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 :—
1. This Act may be cited as the “ Western Lands short title.
(Amendment) Act, 1932,” and shall be read and con strued with the Western Lands Act of 1901, as amended by subsequent Acts, which Act as so amended is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
2 . The Principal Act is amended by omitting section Amendment
seventeen and by inserting in lieu thereof the following of i9ou“'
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17. (1) The Governor, after report by the Com- withdrawal
missioners, may withdraw any lands held under
lease, other than a lease extended to a lease in per- vidingfor
petuity, whenever it may be deemed expedient so to settlement,
do for the purpose of providing for settlement, and
every such withdrawal shall be notified in the
Government Gazette and a local newspaper.
(2)
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(2) All lands withdrawn from lease under this section shall be disposed of under the provisions of this Act.
(3) The lands which may he withdrawn under this section shall not exceed one-eighth of the area of the lease, and any Avithdrawal made under the pro visions of the section Avhich this section replaces, shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be a withdrawal under this section.
(4) ’Where tAvo or more leases AAdiether adjoin ing or not are held in the same interest and are, in the opinion of the Commissioners, reasonably cap able of being worked as one holding, the total area of such leases or of any two or more of such leases may be regarded as tlie area from which withdrawal may he made under this section, and subject to this section AA’ithdraAval may be made from any one or more of such leases. In calculating the total area of such leases, the area of any lease from which with- draAval has been made or deemed to have been made shall not be taken into consideration.
AVhere the carrying capacity of the leases within the holding or of the two or more of such leases from which the withdraAval is to be made, is not uniform, the land which may be Avithdrawn under this section shall not exceed in carrying capacity one-eighth of…