South Australian Consolidated Acts

IRRIGATION (LAND TENURE) ACT 1930 - SECT 114

114—Regulations

In addition to any power by any other section of this Act conferred on the Governor to make regulations as to any matter (which power shall in every case be implied for the purposes of any section in which regulations are referred to, or in which the word "prescribed" is used), the Governor may make any regulations which may be necessary or convenient for carrying out any of the provisions of this Act, or for better effecting the objects of this Act, and in particular (without limiting the effect of this section) for all or any of the following purposes, namely—

            (a)         regulating the duties, powers, authorities, and privileges of all persons employed in the administration of this Act;

            (b)         regulating the management of irrigation areas, and all improvements thereon, and the employment, duties, and privileges of owners, lessees, and occupiers of land;

            (c)         regulating the making and dealing with applications, fixing of boundaries, areas, rents, and purchase-money and the making of surveys;

            (d)         regulating the form and contents of notices, applications, leases, licences, and all other instruments and documents, and the mode of executing, serving, or delivering the same;

            (e)         regulating transfers, transmissions, and forfeitures;

            (f)         regulating the erection or carrying out of any buildings, sheds, or other improvements on any block, town allotment, factory site, or other land within irrigation areas;

            (g)         regulating the time and manner in which any act, deed, matter, or thing required by this Act to be done, and as to which no time or procedure is provided, is to be done or performed;

            (h)         the imposition and recovery of fees and charges and interest on those fees and charges;

                  (i)         prescribing the mode in which applications for advances are to be made;

            (j)         regulating the consideration and granting of applications for advances;

            (k)         prescribing what inquiries and valuations shall be made in relation to applications for advances;

            (l)         adding to or altering the list of improvements for the making of which advances may be made;

            (m)         prescribing the mode in which the value of improvements shall be determined;

            (n)         prescribing the forms of mortgages and securities to be taken by the Minister, and providing for the registration of such mortgages and securities;

            (o)         prescribing the records, books, and accounts to be kept by the Minister;

            (p)         providing for the receipt and payment of moneys under this Act, and the safe custody of securities;

            (q)         prescribing the fees to be paid in respect of advances;

            (r)         rescinding or varying any by-law;

            (s)         prescribing all other matters and things not herein expressly provided for which may be necessary or convenient for fully and effectively carrying out and giving full force and effect to the various objects, purposes, powers, and authorities of this Act, and guarding against evasions and violations thereof;

            (t)         prescribing penalties for breaches of any such regulations, and additional penalties for a repetition or continuance of any such breach: Provided that the penalty for any single breach shall not exceed in any case forty dollars, nor for any continuance four dollars for each day of such continuance.