A.D. 1898. Substituted for Sect. 6 of 61 Vict. No. 7. Method of electing the Council. Retirement of members of Department of Agriculture. 4 Section Six of the said Act is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following shall be and be deemed to be and may be cited as Section Six of the said Act: "6-(1.) On or before the First day of July in every year, the Minister shall notify each Branch Board in every District where there is a Member to be elected that nominations will be received by him on or before the following First day of August, of some person who shall be a Member of some Branch Board, to represent the Branch Boards of the said District in the Council. 66 (2.) Within Three days after the said First day of August, the Minister shall, in case there is more than one person nominated by the Branch Boards of any District as their Representative, cause a list of the persons so nominated to be forwarded to the same Boards for the purpose of electing out of such persons one to be their Representative on the Council. 66 (3.) Every such nomination and election shall be made subject to the before-mentioned Regulations, at Meetings of the Branch Boards convened for that purpose. and shall be certified to the Minister in writing under the hands of the Chairmen presiding at such Meetings." 5 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section Seven of the said Act, Three of the members of the present Council present Council. shall retire on the First day of August, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and Four of the remaining members on the First day of August, One thousand nine hundred, and the remaining Four members on the First day of August, One thousand nine hundred and and the selection of the members who shall so retire shall be decided by lot. Elections for certain extraordinary vacancies. Acts to be read together. 6 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section Eight of the said Act, when an extraordinary vacancy occurs upon the happening of any of the events mentioned in Sub-sections 1. and 11. of that Section more than Three months before the next annual election, the Council shall direct an election to be held in the district represented by the vacating member to fill up such vacancy, and the Council may direct (subject to any Regulations which may be made in respect of such cases) how the election shall be conducted. Every member elected to fill any such vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the term for which his predecessor was elected. Provided, that if the Branch Boards in such district fail to elect a member within Twenty-one days after receiving notice to do so, the Council may forthwith appoint a member as provided in the said Section. 7 This Act and the said Act, save as amended by this Act, shall be read and construed together as one and the same Act. WILLIAM GRAHAME, AN ACT to amend ration Act, 1893." [29 October, 1898.] BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: 1 This Act may be cited as "The Manure Adulteration Act, 1898," Short title. and shall come into operation on the First day of January, 1899. 2 In this Act the said Act shall mean "The Manure Adulteration Interpretation. Act, 1893." 3 Section Fourteen of the said Act is hereby repealed. 57 Vict. No. 23. Repeal. 4 Everv person who offers for sale any manure in any quantity of Vendors to exhibit not less than One hundred weight shall post and exhibit, and keep Invoice Certifiposted and exhibited, in a conspicuous part of the building in which cate in store. such manure is stored or kept, an Invoice Certificate of such manure as provided in Section Three of the said Act; and every such person who fails to post and exhibit, and to keep posted and exhibited, such Invoice Certificate as aforesaid shall, for every such offence, be liable to forfeit a penalty not exceeding Two Pounds. H A.D. 1898. Penalty if samples obtained by Inspector not equal to Invoice Certificate. Result of analysis Manure Adulteration. 5 When the Analyst, having analysed any sample of manure obtained by any Inspector appointed under the provisions of the said Act, shall have given his Certificate of the result from which it may appear that such manure has been materially misrepresented in the Invoice Certificate thereof or in any label attached to the package containing such manure, or in the Invoice Certificate posted in accordance with the preceding Section, in any of the particulars required under the said Act or this Act to be truly stated in such Invoice Certificate or label, the person from whom such manure was obtained by the Inspector shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds and not less than One Pound, and for a second or subsequent offence to a penalty not exceeding Twenty-five Pounds and not less than Five Pounds. 6 The result of the analysis of all samples of manure taken by any to be published. Inspector appointed by the Council of Agriculture, together with the names and addresses of the vendors, and a statement as to the value of such manure from the result of the analysis, shall be published in the Agricultural Journal, and in such other manner as the Council of Agriculture may direct. Offences to be heard and determined under 19 Vict. No. 8. Appeal. 19 Vict. No 10. Acts to be read together. 7 All offences against the said Act or this Act shall be heard and determined before any Two Justices of the Peace in the mode prescribed by The Magistrates Summary Procedure Act; and any person convicted of any offence against this Act may appeal against the conviction in the mode prescribed by The Appeals Regulation Act. 8 This Act and the said Act, save as amended by this Act, shall be read and construed together as one and the same Act. WILLIAM GRAHAME, AN ACT to further amend "The Game A.D 1898. Protection Act, 1895." [29 October, 1898.] BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: 1 This Act may be cited as "The Game Protection Act, 1898." 2 If any person unlawfully and knowingly in any manner hunts or is found in possession, either on his own land or elsewhere, of any Opossum, whether alive or dead, or any skin or carcase thereof, at any time between the First day of August in any year and the Thirty-first day of May in any succeeding year, both days inclusive, which interval is herein referred to as "the close season," he shall, for every Opossum so hunted or found in his possession, and for every skin or carcase thereof so found in his possession, forfeit and pay not less than Forty Shillings. Nothing herein contained shall prevent any person from having or keeping any Opossum in a state of confinement, provided the same is not taken or captured in "the close season." No person prosecuted for being found in possession of any Opossum, or skin or carcase thereof, contrary to this Section shall be liable to any penalty if such person proves to the satisfaction of the adjudicating Justices that such Opossum, or that the Opossum from which such skin or carcase was taken, was hunted at any other time than within "the close season." Short title. Penalty for hunting, &c. Opossum within a certain period. A.D. 1898. Penalty for hunting, &c. Forester Kangaroo. Definition of Kangaroo amended. Amendment of Certain sections extended. Repeal of Section 18 of 59 Vict. No. 26. Acts to be read together. 59 Vict. No. 26. Game Protection. 3 Every person who in any manner hunts or is found in possession, either on his own land or elsewhere, of any Tasmanian Great Kangaroo or Forester (Macropus giganteus, var. fuliginosus), whether alive or dead, or any skin or carcase thereof, shall for every Tasmanian Great Kangaroo or Forester so hunted or found in his possession, and for every skin or carcase thereof so found in his possession, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings. 4 The word "Kangaroo," when used in "The Game Protection Act, 1895," shall not include the Forester Kangaroo (Mucropus major). 5 In place of the word July in the fifth line of the Eighth Section of "The Game Protection Act, 1895," the word August is hereby substituted. 6 The provisions of Sections Twenty-one, Twenty-two, Twentythree, Twenty-five, Twenty-six, Twenty-seven, Twenty-eight, and Twenty-nine of the said Act shall apply to hunting and shooting the Grey and Black Opossum and to licences for the purpose thereof. 7 Section Eighteen of the said Act is hereby repealed. 8 "The Game Protection Act, 1895," as amended by this Act, and this Act shall be read and construed together as one and the same Act, and the words and expressions used in this Act are to have the same meaning as those attached by the said Act to similar words and expressions. WILLIAM GRAHAME, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, TASMANIA. |