South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

RENMARK IRRIGATION TRUST ACT 1936 - SECT 5

5—Interpretation

In this Act, except where inconsistent with the context or subject-matter—

"agreement" means an agreement entered into under Part 10 or under The Renmark Irrigation Trusts Acts Further Amendment Act 1914 containing a covenant to purchase land;

"board" means the Allotment Board referred to in Part 10;

"business day" means any day not being a Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day, or public or bank holiday;

"Chaffey Brothers, Limited" includes persons lawfully claiming through Chaffey Brothers, Limited;

"chairman" means the chairman of the trust;

"district" means the Renmark Irrigation District;

"domestic partner" means a person who is a domestic partner within the meaning of the Family Relationships Act 1975 , whether declared as such under that Act or not;

"drain" includes any pipe, channel or sump and any shaft or bore used for the disposal of seepage water;

"irrigation works" means all watercourses, machinery, drainage works, waterworks and other property and improvements constructed or brought upon or established in connection with the district and for irrigation or drainage purposes;

"member" means a member of the trust;

"Minister" means the Minister of the Crown to whom for the time being the administration of this Act is committed by the Governor;

"owner", as regards land, includes the person for the time being receiving or entitled to receive the rents and profits of any ratable land, whether on his own account or as trustee, attorney, or agent for another;

"public notice" means notice given by advertisement in a newspaper circulating in the district, and by posting handbills on every place in the district appointed by the trust as a place for posting notices;

"ratable land" means all land within the district available for irrigated culture under the system of irrigation works for the time being established for the service of land in the district, except—

            (a)         land that is, in one block, less than 0.5 of a hectare and does not form part of a single holding that is more than 0.5 of a hectare; and

            (b)         land that is declared by the trust to be non-ratable land; and

            (c)         land that is a township allotment;

"rate" means a rate declared under the powers given by this Act or any repealed Act;

"ratepayer" means the owner or occupier of ratable land or the owner of unoccupied ratable land, and whose name appears in the assessment-book in respect of that land;

"relative" of a person includes someone who is the person's domestic partner;

"repealed Act" means any Act repealed by this Act;

"secretary" means the secretary of the trust;

"single holding" means any continuous area of land, or any two or more parcels of land separated only by roads, track or channels, situated within the district and occupied and used by the same person as a single vineyard, orchard or garden;

"township allotments" means land laid out as township allotments whereof a subdivision plan has been lodged in the Lands Titles Registration Office pursuant to the Real Property Act 1886 ;

"the Land and Valuation Court" means the Land and Valuation Court constituted under the Supreme Court Act 1935 ;

"trust" means the Renmark Irrigation Trust.