Wines, Beer, and Spirit Sale Act Amendment Act 1902 (WA)

Natztem Cittztralta.

ANNO SECUNDO

EDWARDI VII. REGIS.

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No. XLIV.

AN ACT to further amend the Wines. Beer,

and Spirit Sale Act, 1880.

[Assented to, 20th December, 1902.]

lative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament	BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and withthe advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legis-
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1.     THIS Act may be cited as the Wines, Beer, and Spirit Sale

Act Amendment Act, 1902. Short title.

2. SECTION three of the Wines, Beer, and Spirit Sale Act, Amendment of 44

1880 (thereinafter referred to as the principal Act) is amended by

Viet., No. 9, sec. 3.

striking out the word " thirty," in line eight, and inserting "thirty-

five."

3. SECTION twenty-two of the Wines, Beer, and Spirit Sale Amendment of 57

Act, 1880, Amendment Act, 1893, is amended by striking out the	Viet., No. 25, see. 22,
word " thirty," in line eight, and inserting " thirty-five."

2° EDWARDI VII., No. 44.

Wines, Beer, and Spirit Sale Act—Amendment.

Amendment of 444. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in section Viet., No. 9, sec. 26. twenty-six of the principal Act to the contrary, quarterly licensing

meetings may be held under the principal Act at any one or more of the several places within any licensing district at which Courts of petty sessions are accustomed to be held, and on such days as the Governor may, from time to time, by notice in the Government Gazette, appoint.

5.      IN section fifty-six of the principal Act the words "Western

Amendment of 44 Australia are omitted, and the word " Australia " is inserted in

Viet., No. 9, sec. 56.

place thereof.

6.      SECTION fifty-seven of the principal Act shall not extend

Amendment of 44 toprevent the lawful employment, by any person holding a publican's

Viet., No. 9, sec. 57.

general license, of an aboriginal native on the licensed premises of such person, with the consent in writing of the Chief Protector of Aborigines first obtained.

7.      EVERY aboriginal native of Australia, and every aboriginal

Who is to be deemed half-caste or child of a hall-caste (such half-caste or child habitually

an aboriginal native.

associating and living with aboriginal natives), shall be deemed to

See 50 Viet. , No. 25 ,

sec. 45. be an aboriginal native within the meaning of the principal Act, and the Justices adjudicating upon any complaint may, in the absence of other sufficient evidence, decide on their oivn view and judgment whether any person, with reference to whom any proceedings are taken under the Act, is or is not an aboriginal

native.

In the name and on behalf of the King I hereby assent

to this Act.

E. A. STONE, Administrator.

By Authority : Wm. ALFRED WaTsoN, Government Printer, Perth.