South Australian Consolidated Acts110—Discharged Soldiers Settlement Acts to be administered by Minister
(1) Notwithstanding
anything contained in the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act 1917
(hereinafter in this Division sometimes referred to
as the "said Act") the said Act, so far as it concerns or affects—
(a) any
land within an irrigation area; or
(b) any
land set apart by the Governor under the provisions of section 6 of the
said Act, or acquired by the Minister under the provisions of section 7 of the
said Act, or over which any person has been granted a lease, agreement, or
permit under or pursuant to the said Act, or with respect to which any advance
has been made under the said Act, such land being irrigated or irrigable by
water from the River Murray not supplied by the Minister of Works; or
(c) any
training farm, store, shed, factory, or building on any such land; or
(d) any
advance under the said Act with respect to any such land,
shall be administered by the Minister and not by the Minister of Repatriation:
Provided that the powers, duties, authorities, and functions of the Minister
of Repatriation under sections 3 to 22 (both inclusive) of the Discharged
Soldiers Settlement Act Further Amendment Act 1919 shall not be exercised
or discharged by the Minister, but shall continue to be exercised and
discharged by the Minister of Repatriation.
(2) Any land mentioned
in subsection (1) hereof, and any training farm, store, shed, factory,
building, or other property (real or personal) of any kind whatsoever on any
such land which, at the commencement of this Act, is vested in, or is the
property of, the Minister of Repatriation, whether in his personal or
corporate capacity, is hereby transferred to, and shall be vested in or shall
be the property of, the Minister.
(3) All the powers,
immunities, rights, interests, titles, privileges, functions, authorities,
obligations, liabilities, and duties of the Minister of Repatriation and of
the body corporate constituted by the Discharged Soldiers Settlement
Act 1917 under the name of the Minister of Repatriation, arising under
the said Act or any other Act passed before the commencement of this Act, or
under any document or instrument of any kind in force, or subsisting at such
commencement, whether arising before or after such commencement of this Act,
so far as they concern or affect—
(a) any
land within an irrigation area; or
(b) any
land set apart by the Governor under the provisions of section 6 of the
said Act or acquired by the Minister under the provisions of section 7 of the
said Act, or over which any person has been granted a lease, agreement, or
permit under or pursuant to the said Act, or with respect to which any advance
has been made under the said Act, such land being irrigated or irrigable by
water from the River Murray not supplied by the Minister of Works; or
(c) any
training farm, store, shed, factory, or building on any such land; or
(d) any
advance under the said Act with respect to any such land,
are hereby transferred to the Minister.