South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

RENMARK IRRIGATION TRUST ACT 1936 - SECT 8

8—District of the trust

        (1)         The district of the trust shall be the area margined in red on the plan signed, J.H. McNamara, Surveyor-General, deposited in the Land Office on the fifth day of August, 1936, and numbered 324.

        (2)         The Governor may by proclamation declare that any portion of the State shall be included in the district of the trust.

        (3)         The Governor shall not make any such proclamation unless petitions for the making thereof are presented to the Minister by the trust and by the owners of land within the said portion of the State praying that the said portion of the State be included in the district of the trust and unless the Minister is satisfied—

            (a)         that a petition presented by owners as aforesaid is signed by one-half or more of the owners of land within the part of the State proposed to be included within the district of the trust; and

            (b)         that the area of land owned by the persons by whom the petition is signed is more than one-half of the total area of the land included within the said part of the State.

        (4)         A petition as aforesaid shall not be presented by the trust unless a poll of the ratepayers has been held at which a proposal for the inclusion of the said portion of the State within the district of the trust has been approved.

        (5)         In this subsection—

"owner of land" means the registered proprietor in fee simple, the lessee under any perpetual lease granted by the Crown, and the purchaser under any agreement for the sale and purchase of the land granted by the Crown.