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ABORIGINES PROTECTION AMENDING ACT, 1915.

ACT No. II., 1915.

An Act to amend the Aborigines Protection Act, 1909;  and for other purposes.   [Assented to, 15th February, 1915.]

BE it enacted by the King's  Most  Excellent  Majesty,   by and with the  advice and  consent  of   the   Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1      This Act may be cited as the " Aborigines Protection she Amending Act, 1915," and shall be read with the Aborigines Protection Act, 1909, hereinafter called the Principal Act.

2      (1)    Section eleven, subsection one, of the Principal  Act is amended—

(a)  by omitting the words " in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Apprentices Act, 1901 and inserting in lieu thereof the words " on such terms and conditions as it may think under the circumstances of the case to be desirable " ;   and

(b)  by omitting the last paragraph of the subsection.

(2) Subsection two of the same section is amended by omitting the words " above fourteen and "

3      The following new sections are inserted and shall be  read next after section eleven :—

11a. (1) Every child so apprenticed who refuses to go to the person to whom the Board has apprenticed him may be removed, for the purpose of being trained, to some home or institution as the Board may arrange.

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