{"id":"C1912A00039","name":"Lands Acquisition Act 1912","slug":"lands-acquisition-act-1912","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"39 of 1912","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":18716,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1912A00039-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Lands Acquisition Act 1912","content":"LANDS ACQUISITION.\n\nNo. 39 of 1912.\n\nAn Act to validate certain notifications of the Acquisition of Land by the Commonwealth.\n\n\\[Assented to 24th December, 1912.\\]\n\nBE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may he cited as the Lands Acquisition Act 1912.\n\nCertain notifications to be deemed effective.\n\n2. Any notification by the Governor-General made before the commencement of this Act, and purporting to be in pursuance of the Lands Acquisition Act 1906, and published in the Gazette, and declaring that any land therein mentioned has been acquired by the Commonwealth for Commonwealth purposes, shall be deemed to be sufficient for the purposes of that Act, and the lands specified therein shall be deemed to have been vested in the Commonwealth in accordance with section sixteen of that Act as from the date of the publication of the notification in the Gazette.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1801},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly focused on its original purpose of validating pre-existing land acquisition notifications. It has not expanded beyond the narrow technical fix described in the long title."},"complexity_factors":["Only 2 operative sections","No definitions section or defined terms","Single, unambiguous purpose (retrospective validation)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural steps","Minimal cross-referencing (single mention of the Lands Acquisition Act 1906)"],"plain_english_summary":"This short Act retroactively validates Government Gazette notices issued under the Lands Acquisition Act 1906 that took land for Commonwealth purposes. It declares those earlier notices legally effective despite technical defects, vests the described land in the Commonwealth as of the original publication date, and so secures the government’s title against challenges. It mainly affects past owners or occupiers of such land."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/lands-acquisition-act-1912","history":"/api/acts/lands-acquisition-act-1912/history","analysis":"/api/acts/lands-acquisition-act-1912/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/lands-acquisition-act-1912/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/lands-acquisition-act-1912/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/lands-acquisition-act-1912/documents"}}