The Short Title of this Act is “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1893.”

“The Land Act, 1892” (herein referred to as “the said Act”), is hereby amended as follows, that is to say:—

Section thirteen is hereby amended—

Section sixty-two is hereby amended—

By the addition to the first paragraph thereof, after the word “case,” of the following words: “and every such application shall have on the back thereof an agreement to the effect that the applicant will, immediately on being notified by the Commissioner that his application is successful, pay to the Receiver of Land Revenue the deposit required by sections sixty-three and sixty-four.”

Section sixty-three is hereby amended by the omission of all the words at the beginning of the said section down to and including the words “following sums,” before the first subsection, and the substitution in lieu thereof—

Subsection one of section sixty-four is hereby repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

Section two hundred and fifty-two is hereby amended by the substitution of the words “three years” for the words “one year,” where the latter occur in the said section: Provided this amendment shall not affect proceedings now pending, or apply retrospectively.

The said Act is hereby also verbally amended as follows:—

In section fifteen, the word “two hundred and thirty-five” shall be substituted for “two hundred and thirty-three.”

In section sixteen, the words “sections one hundred and seventy-seven and one hundred and ninety-eight” shall be substituted for “clauses one hundred and seventy-five and one hundred and ninety-six.”

In section eighty-five, the word “eighty-three” shall be substituted for “seventy-six.”

In section one hundred and thirteen, the words “in the last-preceding section” shall be substituted for “in this section.”

In section one hundred and forty-four, after the words “to the value of one pound,” there shall be inserted the words “for every acre of such land.”

In section one hundred and fifty-six, the words “one hundred and fifty-two” shall be substituted for “one hundred and fifty-one.”

In section one hundred and eighty-two, the word “seventy-nine” shall be substituted for “seventy-eight.”

In section two hundred and twenty-eight, before the words “yearly rental,” there shall be inserted the word “upset.”

In the heading of Part X., the word “Miscellaneous” shall be substituted for “Repeals,” and the said heading shall be transposed before section two hundred and fifty-two.

In subsection three of section eighty-one, the word “effected” shall be read in lieu of “affected.”

In paragraph three of section ninety-one, the word “selector” shall be read in lieu of the word “owner.”

From and after the passing of this Act, the said Act shall be read and have effect as if the omissions, substitutions, and additions required by this section had been originally enacted therein.