purposes voted by the Legislative Assembly. Sums available for 2. The said sums shall be available to satisfy the warrants under the hand of the Governor, under the provisions of the law now in force, in respect of any Services voted by the Legislative Assembly during the financial year ending 30th June, 1922, or issued for such purposes. Short title. Power to exchange lands. Closure of certain roads and ways. No. 6 of 1921. AN ACT to enable Fremantle Lots 1353 and 1532 to be [Assented to 26th October, 1921.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by Band with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in 1. This Act may be cited as the Fremantle Lands Act, 1921. 2. It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant to the Fremantle Municipal Council Fremantle Lots 1353 and 1532, in exchange for Fremantle Lot 1697 as described in the Schedule; and it shall be lawful for the Fremantle Municipal Council to surrender to His Majesty the King Fremantle Lot 1697 accordingly. 3. The way delineated on the official plan No. 1699 (deposited in the Department of Lands and Surveys) of the subdivision of Fremantle Lot 1353 into allotments 1669 to 1686, and the roads and ways delineated on the official Plan No. 1698 (deposited as aforesaid) of the subdivision of Fremantle Lot 1532 into allotments 1634 to 1668, may be closed by proclamation, and thereupon all rights of way over such roads and ways shall cease. THE SCHEDULE. All that piece of land known as Fremantle Lot 1697 (formerly portion of Fremantle Lot 1517) bounded by lines starting from the intersection of the Western side of East Street with the North-Western side of Ellen Street and extending 359° 15′, 1112.7 links, along said side of East Street; thence 255° 58′, 582 links, along the South-Eastern side of Park Street; thence 179° 15′, 1177.6 links, and thence 69° 59′, 600 links, along the aforesaid North-West side of Ellen Street to the starting point. ELECTORAL. 12° GEO. V., No. VII. No. 7 of 1921. AN ACT to further amend the Electoral Act, 1907. BE it the [Assented to 26th October, 1921.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Electoral Act Amend- Short title. ment Act, 1921, and shall be read as one with the Electoral Act, 1907, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act. by reason of test Commonwealth Vic. No. 3119, s. 2. 2. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Vacancy occurring the principal Act contained, whenever any vacancy occurs resignation to conin the Council or the Assembly by reason of any member election. resigning his seat for the purpose of seeking election for the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, if such member tenders his resignation within twenty-one days prior to the date of the issue of the writ for the said election, and notifies in writing to the President or the Speaker his intention to seek such election, and his intention in the event of his failing to secure such election to become again a candidate for the vacancy aforesaid, then the issue of the (2) If the member so resigning his seat and notifying (a) fails to secure election for the Parliament of the (b) is nominated as a candidate for the vacancy the returning officer to whom the writ is directed shall Short title. Appointment of OFFICIAL TRUSTEE. 12° GEO. V., No. VIII. No. 8 of 1921. AN ACT to provide for the appointment of an Official B [Assented to 26th October, 1921.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Official Trustee Act, 1921. 2. (1.) There shall be an Official Trustee, who, subject to the Public Service Act, 1904, shall be appointed by the Governor, and shall have and exercise such powers and execute and discharge such duties as may be vested in or imposed on him pursuant to the provisions hereinafter set forth. an (2.) The Official Trustee shall by that name be a corporation sole, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, and of holding and disposing of real and personal property. Trustee. 3. It shall be lawful for the judges or a majority of them Powers of Official to frame and enact Rules of Court for all or any of the purposes following, that is to say: (i) For the investment by the Official Trustee of any (ii) For empowering the Official Trustee to undertake, (iii) For vesting in the Official Trustee all or any of the XI. of the Lunacy Act, 1903-20, except section one (iv) For empowering the Official Trustee to exercise the (v) For vesting in the Official Trustee such powers of the (vi) For imposing on the Official Trustee such incidental 4. Provision may be made in such Rules of Court for imposing or declaring any conditions, exceptions, or limitations on any of the powers thereby conferred, and for defining the extent to which the powers of the Official Trustee shall be exclusive of those vested in the Master under the said Act. 5. This Act shall be read as one with the Lunacy Act, 1903-20, and in this Act, subject to the context, "insane person" includes an insane patient, and "incapable person" includes any person deemed to be an incapable person. Power to define extent to which powers conferred are exclusive, and o impose limitations. conditions and Act to be read as Act, 1903.20. one with Lunacy ADOPTION OF CHILDREN. 12° GEO. V., No. IX. Short title. Amendment of section 5. Amendment of Inspection of records. Registration by No. 9 of 1921. AN ACT to amend the Adoption of Children Act, 1896. BE [Assented to 8th November, 1921.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act, 1921. 2. Sub-paragraph (3) of section five of the Adoption of Children Act, 1896, is amended by inserting the following after the words "fifteen years," in line two:-"or if over that age has been under the care and custody of some person for a period of three years, during which time such a person has acted as an adopting parent or otherwise has acted in loco parentis." 3. Section ten of the Adoption of Children Act, 1896, is hereby amended by omitting the words "in addition to the proper name of the child," and every order of adoption made under the principal Act before the commencement of this Act shall have effect as if those words were omitted as from the commencement of the principal Act. 4. The record of any proceedings in the Supreme Court under the principal Act shall not be open to public inspection except for some reasonable and proper purpose and with the sanction in writing of the Master. 5. [10b.] It shall be the duty of the Registrar of the of Orders of Adop. Supreme Court to furnish to the Registrar General under the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Act, 1894, at intervals of not exceeding six months, a return in writing in tion. 1 2 |