Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated ActsWhereas certain Acts of Parliament were passed in the first, the first and
second, the second, the second and third, and the third and fourth years of
the reign of His present Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled,
respectively: 2
1. An Act for making better Provision for the disposal of the undisposed
of Residues of the Effects of Testators. 3 *
2. An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws for facilitating the
Payment of Debts out of Real Estate. 4 *
3. An Act for amending the Law respecting the Conveyances Transfers of Estates
and Funds vested in Trustees and Mortgagees: and for enabling Courts of Equity
to give effect to their Decrees and Orders in certain Cases. 5
4. An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Property
belonging to Infants, Fêmes-covert, Idiots, Lunatics, and Persons of
unsound mind. 6 *
5. An Act for reducing it one Act, all such Forgeries as shall henceforth
be punished with Death, and for otherwise amending the Laws relative to
Forgery. 7
6. An Act to abolish certain Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in the
Customs and Excise Departments of His Majesty’s Revenue, and to
establish Declarations in lieu thereof. 8 *
7. An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws against Offences relating to
the Coin. 9
[8. Repealed by 1 & 2 Edw. VII No. 14, s 3(2), Third Schedule.]
9. An Act for shortening the Time of Prescription in certain Cases. 10
*
10. An Act for regulating the Protesting for non-Payment of Bills of Exchange,
drawn Payable at a Place not being the Place of Residence of the Drawee or
Drawees of the same. 11 *
11. An Act for abolishing the Punishment of Death in certain Cases of Forgery.
12
12. An Act for the Limitation of Actions and Suits relating to Real Property,
and for simplifying the Remedies for trying the Right thereof. 13
13. An Act for the further Amendment of the Law, and the better Advancement of
Justice. 14 *
14. An Act to repeal so much of two Acts of the Seventh and Eighth Years and
the Ninth Year of King George the Fourth, as inflicts the Punishment of Death
upon Persons breaking, entering and stealing in a Dwelling-House; and also for
giving power to the Judges to add to the Punishment of Transportation for Life
in certain Cases of Forgery, and in certain other Cases. 15
15. An Act to render Freehold and Copyhold Estates Assets for the Payment of
Simple and Contract Debts. 16
16. An Act for the Amendment of the Law relating to Dower. 17
17. An Act for the Amendment of the Law of Inheritance. 18
And whereas it is expedient to adopt and apply the said recited Acts of
Parliament in the Administration of Justice in the Colony of Western
Australia:
Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia,
with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that the said
recited Acts of Parliament, and every clause, provision and enactment therein
respectively contained, shall be, and the same are and is hereby adopted, and
directed to be applied, in the Administration of Justice, so far as they can
be applied to the circumstances of the said Colony.
This Act may be cited as the Imperial Acts Adopting Act 1836 .
[Paragraph inserted by No. 10 of 1970 s.3.]