A.D. 1898.

Packet Licences

in name of ship may be transferred.

Acts to be read together.

Licensing Amendment.

4 When the owner of any ship in respect of which a Packet Licence has been issued is desirous of transferring such Packet Licence to any other ship, the owner of such ship may apply to have such Licence transferred in the same manner as if such Packet Licence had been issued in the name of some person.

For the purpose of this and the preceding Section the several Forms in the Schedule to the said Act may be altered, mutatis mutandis.

5 "The Licensing Act, 1889," and any Amendments thereof, and this Act, shall be read and construed together as one and the same Act.

WILLIAM GRAHAME,

GOVERNMENT PRINTER, TASMANIA.

AN ACT to amend "An Act to make better A.D. 1898. provision for vesting in Her Majesty the Queen Land acquired for Roads and for other purposes." [29 October, 1898.]

BE

E 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 Land Vesting Act, 1898."

2 The Act of Parliament 58 Victoria, No. 17, intituled "An Act to make better provision for vesting in Her Majesty the Queen Land acquired for Roads and for other Purposes," shall, by virtue of this Act, have the short title of "The Land Vesting Act, 1894," and may for all purposes be cited by that short title, and shall in this Act be referred to as "the said Act."

Short title.

Short title and Interpretation of 58 Vict. No. 17.

3 Whenever any Minister of the Crown is empowered to acquire Provisions of said land for Railways or Tramways, and it is deemed necessary to acquire Act applied to all such land, all the provisions of the said Act shall apply, mutatis mutandis, land acquired for to the acquisition and vesting of such land: Provided, that land acquired for other than Road purposes shall not be a public highway as provided for by the said Act.

Railways or

Tramways.

WILLIAM GRAHAME,
GOVERNMENT PRINTER, TASMANIA.

AN ACT

ACT to to amend "The Deserted Wives A.D. 1898. and Children Maintenance Act, 1873."

[29 October, 1898.]

WHEREAS a doubt has arisen as to whether a wife is a competent PREAMBLE.

and admissible witness against her husband in a criminal proceeding against him under Section Fourteen of "The Deserted Wives and Children Maintenance Act, 1873," and it is desirable that the said doubt should be removed:

Be it therefore 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 In this Act, the expression "the said Act" shall mean "The Interpretation. Deserted Wives and Children Maintenance Act, 1873."

37 Vict. No. 14.

2 In any criminal proceeding instituted against a husband for Wife competent desertion of his wife or child under Section Fourteen of the said Act, witness against his wife shall be a competent witness against him, any Statute or Rule husband under of Law to the contrary notwithstanding; and the defendant in any 37 Vict. No. 14. such criminal proceeding shall be a competent witness for the defence.

Sect. 14 of

substitution for

3 Section Ten of the said Act is hereby repealed, and in lieu Repeal of and thereof it is hereby enacted that no Order for the maintenance of any child under the said Act shall be of any force or effect after such Sect. 10 of child attains the age of Sixteen years, or, if a female, marries, whichever event first happens.

37 Vict. No. 14.

A.D. 1898.

Reputed father of unborn child may be summoned to show cause why provision should not be made for child.

Order may be made for payment of expenses attending birth.

Person leaving wife or child for three months without support guilty of misde

meanour.

Short title.

Acts to be read together.

Deserted Wives and Children Maintenance Amendment.

4 Any single woman who may be with child may, before the birth, make application to a Justice of the Peace for a summons to be served on the person alleged by her to be the father of such child; and upon the applicant making a deposition upon oath stating who is the father of such child, and upon such deposition being corroborated upon oath in some material particulars by some credible witness, it shall be lawful for such Justice to issue his summons directed to such person to appear before any Two Justices to show cause why provision should not. be made for the support of such child; and, in case it is also made to appear to the satisfaction of such Justice upon the oath of the said woman, or of some credible person, that there is reason to believe that the person against whom the complaint is made will not attend in obedience to such summons, then it shall be lawful for such Justice, instead of issuing such summons, to issue in the first instance his warrant for the apprehension of the person against whom the complaint is made to answer to the same, and to be further dealt with according to law.

5 It shall be lawful for the Justices, when making an Order directing a defendant to pay any sum or sums for the support of his illegitimate child, to order him to also pay such sum, if any, as they may think fit for nursing and medical attendance upon the mother in connection with the birth of such child.

6 If any person being of sufficient means shall without reasonable cause or excuse leave his wife or child without means of support for a period of Three consecutive months, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to imprisonment with hard labour for any period not exceeding One year, and the proof of want of sufficient means and of the existence of reasonable cause or excuse shall be upon the person charged with an offence under this Section.

7 This Act may be cited as "The Deserted Wives and Children Maintenance Amendment Act, 1898."

8 The said Act, as amended by this Act, and this Act shall be read and construed together as one Act.

WILLIAM GRAHAME,
GOVERNMENT PRINTER, TASMANIA.