STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 233.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1918.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the War Precautions Act 1914-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this seventeenth day of November, 1920.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of the War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations as Amended to this Date.

Regulation 56 of the War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation the Public Trustee may, if the Governor-General so directs, out of money vested in him in pursuance of this regulation, or out of money arising from property so vested, apply for the maintenance in the Commonwealth of the wife and children of the person for whom that money or property was held or managed immediately prior to its being so vested, such sums as the Public Trustee deems sufficient for the maintenance of the wife and children.

Provided that no sums shall be paid in pursuance of this sub-regulation—

(a) after the expiration of three years from the commencement thereof; or

(b) in cases where the wife was not, prior to her marriage, a natural-born British subject.”

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