The Employers Liability Act.-1884. or above that age, has entered into or works under a contract with an employer, whether the contract be inade before or after the passing of this Act, be express or implied, oral or in writing, and be a contract of service, or a contract personally to execute any work or labor. 10. This Act shall not come into operation until the first day of Commencement of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, which date is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. Act. 11. This Act may be cited as the "Employers Liability Act, Short title. 1884," In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill. WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, Governor. Adelaide By authority, E. SPILLER, Government Printer, North-terrace. An Act to amend the law relating to Deeds of Assignment. WHE [Assented to, November 14th, 1884.] HEREAS it is desirable to amend the law relating to deeds of Preamble. of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative the Insolvent Acts. 1. Except so far as inconsistent therewith this Act shall be incor- Incorporation with porated and read as one with the "Insolvent Act, 1860," and all Acts amending the same, and the Act No. 195 of 1880, intituled "An Act to extend the Jurisdiction of Local Courts," hereinafter referred to as "the Insolvent Acts." vency to have juris 2. A copy of the notice of every deed purporting to be made and Local Courts of Insolexecuted pursuant to Division VI. of the "Insolvent Act, 1860," diction in respect of required to be given pursuant to section 172 of the said Act, shall assignments. be given to the proper officer of that Court of Insolvency, whether a Local Court or not, which shall be (a) Nearest to the place at which was held the meeting of creditors required by the "Insolvency Act, 1881," to be held prior to the execution of such deed: or (at the option of the trustee) (b) Nearest to the residence or principal place of business of the debtor making the deed: And, subject to the power of removal contained in section 7 of the Power to make rules and orders. Act retrospective, saving past decisions and pending cases. Insolvency Act Amendment Act.-1884. the Act, No. 195, of 1880 all jurisdiction and proceedings under the Insolvent Acts or otherwise concerning such deed and the trustees thereunder and the debtor, his creditors and estate, shall be had, exercised, and taken by and in the Court to the officer of which such copy notice shall have been given in pursuance of this Act. 3. The powers of making rules and orders conferred by the Insolvent Acts shall extend to the making of rules and orders for regulating the practice of Local Courts of Insolvency, and the forms. of proceedings and notices, and generally for the better carrying out of this Act: Provided that, until such rules and orders shall be in operation, the existing rules and orders of the Court of Insolvency, so far as they may be applicable, shall be binding and operative. 4. No deed purporting to be made and executed pursuant to Division VI. of the "Insolvent Act, 1860," before the passing of this Act, shall be deemed or declared fraudulent, void, or of no effect, or an act of insolvency, by reason only that any notice or proceedings in relation thereto shall not have been given to the proper officer or taken in the proper Court, if such notice shall have been given to any officer of any Local Court of Insolvency, or such proceedings shall have been taken in any Local Court of Insolvency: Provided that this Act shall not extend to validate any deed which has heretofore been declared void or invalid by any Court of competent jurisdiction, or in respect of the validity of which proceedings are now pending. In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to Adelaide By authority, E. SPILLER, Government Printer, North-terrace. An Act to provide for the formation of a Line of Railway from Mount Gambier to Naracoorte. [Assented to, November 14th, 1884.] HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the construction of a Line of Railway from Mount Gambier to Naracoorte; and whereas plans of the proposed railway, showing the line thereof, together with the book of reference thereto, have been duly prepared and deposited in the offices of the Surveyor-General, at Adelaide, and signed "H. C. Mais, Engineer-in-Chief"-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows: Preamble. 1. The Mount Gambier and Naracoorte Railway Act, 1867, being Repeal of 19, 1867. No. 19 of 1867, is hereby repealed. 2. "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act," and an Act, No. 26 Incorporation. of 1855-6, to amend "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act," and "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act," and an Act, No. 6 of 1858, to amend "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act," and all other Acts passed or hereafter to be passed amending the said Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts or Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, so far as the same are severally applicable to this Act, shall be incorporated therewith, and the said Acts shall be read and construed together accordingly. 3. The Commissioner of Railways, hereinafter called "the said Power to make Commissioner," railway. 327 |