1940s
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Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1945
Islanders required to develop and cultivate land on Cape Barren Island within the following five years or it reverts to the Crown.
Key provisions
Surveyor-General to ‘manage and regulate the use and enjoyment of the Reserve’ and ‘exercise a general supervision and care over all matters affecting the interests and welfare of the residents of the Reserve’. Leases to contain covenants that lessor will make substantial improvements to the land, fence and cultivate the land and that his wife and family will reside on it for at least nine months per year. Lessee may bequeath lease to a member of his family, which comprises only his wife and children, living on the reserve at the time of death. Any person over the age of 21 who is not a lessee, or the son of a lessee who is permanently employed by and receiving wages from a lessee, may be removed from the reserve. Regulations may be made for the peace, order and good government of the reserve.
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