Applications for leases, etc.

Priority of applications.

Forms.

Covenants, etc.

Royalty.

Returns.

Liens.

Practice.

Service of notices.

Gold-dealers' licenses.

Records.

Fees.

all cases where such powers and duties have not been
defined by this Act;

(33.) For prescribing the mode of making and investigating and
determining upon applications for and objections to the
granting of mining tenements, and the amount of deposit
(if any) to be paid by applicants and objectors, re-
spectively, in connection with such determination;
(34.) For prescribing the manner of dealing with cases when
two or more applications are made in respect of the
same land;

(35.) For prescribing the forms of leases, licenses, certificates,
applications, objections, notices, and other documents
granted, issued, or used under or for the purposes of this
Act;

(36.) For prescribing the covenants, conditions, reservations, and exceptions to be inserted in leases granted under this Act, and the manner in which such leases shall be registered;

(37.) For determining the time and mode of ascertaining the amount of any royalty, and the time for payment thereof;

(38.) For prescribing returns to be furnished by owners and
managers of mines and works for the treatment of gold
or other minerals;

(39.) For enabling persons claiming to be entitled to any lien,
mortgage, or encumbrance, to register same;
(40.) For regulating the practice, and procedure in Warden's
Courts; the sittings of such courts; the duties
of the officers; the fees and costs of the proceedings
therein and of appeals therefrom, and the allowances to
witnesses;

(41.) For defining the manner or method in or by which any
document or notice required to be posted, served on, or
given to any person shall be posted, served, or given,
and to limit the time or times for so doing;

(42.) For prescribing the manner in which applications for licenses to deal in gold shall be made;

(43.) For prescribing the nature of the particulars which shall be recorded by licensed gold buyers, and to be made known to the parties appointed to receive same;

(44.) For prescribing the fees (if any) which shall be payable for the several matters hereinafter mentioned.—

(a.) The inspection of any register kept under the provisions of this Act;

(b.)

(b.) Applications, surveys, travelling expenses, and pro-
cesses, and exemptions from performance of
labour conditions, or conditions of use or occupa-
tion, or otherwise;

(c.) The registration of any amalgamation, union, or
subdivision of leases or mining tenements, or of
any mortgage, lien, or encumbrance, or any
transfer or discharge thereof, or of any under-
lease, assignment, or transfer, or of any rules or
agreements;

(d.) The filing of any declaration of the loss of any

document;

(e.) The registration of transmission by death, or under
the laws relating to bankruptcy or insanity;

(1.) The registration of any other matter or thing
required by the Act or regulations to be

registered;

(45.) For prescribing rules for the management of goldfields Regulations
and mineral fields, and for the regulation of mining generally.
generally, and for all other matters and things that may

be necessary to give effect to this Act.

307. SUCH regulations, unless the contrary is expressed, shall Regulations to be apply throughout the State, but may be limited to any part published in Gazette. thereof, and shall be published in the Government Gazette, and after

publication therein shall have the force of law, and shall be judicially

noticed in every Court of Justice.

308. SUCH regulations may impose, for any breach thereof, or Regulations may for any disobedience of a lawful order of a Warden or other impose penalties. authorised officer, a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and, in default

of payment, imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period

not exceeding six months.

309. COPIES of all regulations made under this Act shall be Copies to be laid laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days of the before Parliament. making thereof if Parliament shall be then in session, and if not, then within fourteen days after the commencement of the next session thereof.

310. THE regulations and forms made under any of the repealed Acts and in force and use at the commencement of this Act shall, except when they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force under this Act unless and until rescinded by the Governor.

THE

Regulations under

repealed Acts to

remain in force.

Section 4.

Section 120.

The First Schedule.

Date of Act.

Short Title.

Extent of Repeal.

17 Vict., No. 17 An Ordinance to provide for the preservation The whole. of order in cases of any discovery of gold in

BE

[Assented to 16th January, 1904.]

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 Collie-Narrogin Railway Act, Short title. 1904.

2. IT shall be lawful to construct and maintain a railway from Authority to conCollie to Narrogin with all necessary, proper, and usual works and struct. conveniences in connection therewith, along the line described in the Schedule to this Act.

3. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Railways Deviation. Act, 1878, it shall be lawful for the Minister for Railways to deviate from the line as described in such Schedule to the extent of ten miles on either side thereof.

4,

Power to Governor

4. AT any time after the passing of this Act, and until the to compulsorily purchase land within expiration of twelve months from the publication of notice in the 12 miles of railway. Government Gazette declaring the railway open for traffic, the Governor may, with the object of encouraging the cultivation and settlement of the land, compulsorily purchase any land in parcels of not less than one thousand acres, each parcel being the property of one person or two or more persons jointly or in common, and situated within twelve miles on either side of the line of railway, and which land is certified by the Minister for Lands as suitable for closer agricultural settlement: Provided that no land shall be compulsorily purchased until the Land Purchase Board has favourably reported thereon.

5. ON the determination by the Governor from time to time to exercise the power conferred by the last preceding section, any land within such defined limits may be taken under the Public Works Act, 1902, and the provisions of that Act shall apply as if the land had been taken thereunder, and the amount of the purchase money shall be determined as compensation is determined under that Act:

But no regard shall be had to any increased value occasioned by the railway, and the purchase money shall be assessed at the probable and reasonable price which the land with any improvements thereon, or the estate or interest of the claimant therein, might have been expected to realise if offered for sale at the date the land was taken, and if the railway had not been constructed or authorised.

6. BEFORE the purchase money is paid for any land taken under this Act, the Governor may require the claimant to execute a surrender, conveyance, or transfer of the land to the Crown, or as the Governor may direct, free from all encumbrances.

7. ALL such land shall be dealt with under the provisions of the Agricultural Lands Purchase Act, 1896, and the purchase money may be paid out of any moneys authorised to be raised and expended by that Act, or as therein prescribed.

SCHEDULE.