VPRS 1317 Register Of Applications, Permits to Occupy, Homestead Associations Settlement on Land Act 1893

The Settlement on Lands Act 1893 was passed with a view to providing an outlet for the unemployed labour of Victoria through the establishment of three main types of rural settlement. Homestead Associations was one of these.Associations or combinations of not less than six people who desired to settle on Crown land adjacent to each other could, on registration of the association and its members with and the payment of the registration fee to the Board of Land and Works, have up to 2,000 acres reserved for allocation to the members of the association. Members had to be over the age of eighteen and not have any other land holdings. The register of applications by the actual associations may be found in VPRS 13928 / P1.Each member was able to occupy no more than 50 acres. Occupancy was by license for three years at a nominal rent with no member able to receive more than one permit to occupy.This series consists of the register of applications for these permits to occupy. Details given are the names of applicants, the location and extent of the land and the name of the Homestaead Association to which they belonged. Further details are given relating to the later management of the file with thesre indicating the date of issue of a lease and the date of an eventual Crown grant. Details of rents paid under permits to occupy may be found in VPRS 13929 / P1.After this time, a lease could be granted for a period of twenty years as long as specific conditions were met including the cultivation of set proportions of the allotment within specific time frames and residence by the lessee or a member of his family during the period of the lease (Section 20 of the 1893 Act and Section 332 of the consolidated Land Act 1901). Advances not exceeding fifteen pounds for building upon and improving the allotment by way of a loan might be made to permissive occupants. These advances were to be repaid in some twenty annual instalments with the first instalment being due with the issue of the lease. Those who received advances were to match the sum advanced in expenditure.These associations were deemed to have been unsuccessful with the relevant portions of the Act being repealed in 1904.

《1893年土地定居法案》（The Settlement on Lands Act 1893）的通过旨在通过建立三种主要的农村定居模式，为维多利亚州的失业劳动力提供出路。宅基地协会（Homestead Associations）便是其中之一。由至少六名希望在相邻王室土地（Crown land）上定居的人员组成的协会或联合体，在向土地与工程委员会（Board of Land and Works）完成协会及其成员的注册并缴纳注册费后，可申请保留至多2000英亩土地分配给协会成员。协会成员需年满18岁且无其他土地持有记录。实际协会的申请登记可查阅VPRS 13928/P1。每位成员可占用土地不超过50英亩，以名义租金获得为期三年的许可占用权，且每名成员不得持有超过一份占用许可。本系列档案包含这些占用许可的申请登记表，详细信息包括申请人姓名、土地位置与面积，以及其所属的宅基地协会名称。档案还包含后续管理相关的详细信息，如租赁签发日期及最终王室授予（Crown grant）日期。许可占用期间的租金支付详情可查阅VPRS 13929/P1。在此之后，若满足特定条件，可授予为期20年的租赁权，条件包括在规定时限内耕种分配土地的固定比例，以及承租人或其家庭成员在租赁期内居住（《1893年法案》第20条及《1901年综合土地法案》第332条）。许可占用者可获得不超过15英镑的贷款预付款，用于土地上的建筑及改良。该预付款需分约20年分期偿还，首期还款与租赁签发同时到期。获得预付款者需在支出中匹配预付款金额。这些协会被认为未获成功，法案相关部分于1904年被废除。