LANDS ACQUISITION.

No. 12 of 1916.

An Act to authorize the transfer to and the vesting in any authority incorporated by any law of the Commonwealth of lands acquired by the Commonwealth under the Lands Acquisition Act 1906.

[Assented to 30th May, 1916.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Lands Acquisition Act 1916.

(2.) The Lands Acquisition Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Lands Acquisition Act 1906-1916.

2. After section sixty-two of the Lands Acquisition Act 1906 the following section is inserted:—

Vesting of lands in Commonwealth authorities.

“62a. Any land which has been acquired by the Commonwealth under this Act may, if the Governor-General thinks fit, and upon such terms as he directs, be transferred to and vested in any authority incorporated by any law of the Commonwealth.”