PAPUA.
No. 32 of 1920.
An Act to amend Section Twenty of the Papua Act 1905.
[Assented to 11th October, 1920.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Papua Act 1920.
(2.) The Papua Act 1905, as amended by this Act. may be cited as the Papua Act 1905–1920.
Amendment of s. 20.
2. Section twenty of the Papua Act 1905 is amended by inserting in paragraph (a) thereof after the words “disposed of” the words “except in pursuance of rights of purchase acquired under the law of British New Guinea before the commencement of this Act.”