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And any notice required by this Act to be given to the owner 

 or the occupier (as the case may be) of any holding or land, shall in 

 cases where several persons are the owners or the occupiers thereof, 

 be duly siven if given to one of such owners or occupiers as the case 

 may be. 



53. For the purposes of any proceeding under this Act the General description 

 description of any holding or lands need not be a description by 



nietes and bounds, but shall be sufficient if it make such reference to 

 the holding or land either by name, situation, boundaries, or otherwise, 

 as to allow of no reasonable doubt as to what holding or land is 

 referred to. 



54. Where the name of the owner of any holding is unknown proceedings when 

 to any person giving notice or taking proceedings under this Act, wacr3 unknown. 

 any notice required to be given may be addressed to the owner as 



such without mentioning his name, and any order or decision may in 

 like manner be made or given against the aforesaid owner as such. 



55. Whenever by any section of this Act, any sum of money is Effect of moneys 

 expressed to be charged upon any private holding or laud, any person bom chai 'g ed - 

 thereafter becoming the owner of such holding or land shall be taken 



to have notice of such charge, and shall be liable to pay the sum so 

 charged or so much thereof as may for the time being be unpaid as if 

 he were the person originally liable ; but nothing herein contained 

 shall operate to discharge the liability of any person originally or 

 previously liable. 



Whenever any sum. of money is charged upon any holding 

 or land, and any portion of such holding or land is detached from the 

 residue thereof by subdivision, withdrawal, or otherwise howsoever, 

 the portion so detached shall be charged with a ratable part of the 

 aforesaid sum. 



56. It shall be lawful for any person in whom any holding is Power to raiss 

 vested as mortgagee to add to his mortgage debt any sums expended money by mort g a g e ' 

 by, or recovered from, him for the erection or repair, or as a contribu- 

 tion towards the cost of the erection or repair of any rabbit-proof 



fence upon, near, or for the benefit of such holding ; and it shall be 

 lawful for any person in whom any holding is vested as a Trustee to 

 raise the sums required or recovered for any such purpose by mortgage 

 of such holding, in the same way as if a power to mortgage for any 

 or all of such purposes had been contained in the instrument creating 

 or declaring the trusts thereof. 



57. Whenever in any section of this Act the expression Regulations by the 

 " prescribed " is used in connection with any matter, and whenever GoTernor ~ in " Counci1 - 

 in any section of this Act " regulations " are referred to, the Governor 



may, in every such case, frame regulations for the purpose of giving 

 effect to the provisions of such section. And for the purpose of 

 carrying this Act into full effect generally the Governor may make 

 regulations which may provide for the enforcement thereof by 

 penalties not exceeding, in any case, ten pounds, and shall, upon 

 being published in the Gazette, be valid in law : Provided that 

 a copy of every such regulation shall be laid betore both Houses of 

 Parliament within fourteen days from the publication thereof, if 

 Parliament be then in Session, or otherwise within fourteen days after 

 the commencement of the next ensuing Session. 



58. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires : interpretation. 

 " Crown Lands Acts " means the Crown Lands Acts of 1884, 



1889, and 1895, together with any Acts passed or to be 



passed for the amendment of the said Acts or any of them. 

 " Diseases in Sheep Acts " means the " Diseases in Sheep Act of 



1866," together with all Acts passed or to be passed for the 



amendment thereof. 

 " Governor" means the Governor, with the advice of the Executive 



Council. 



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