STATUTORY RULES.

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1927. No. 123.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919-20.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919-1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated the 26th day of October, 1927.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command

Treasurer.

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Amendment of Treaty of Peace Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1920, No. 25, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 28 of the Treaty of Peace Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(2) The Auditor-General, or any person thereto authorized in writing by the Auditor-General, may, in any case where he deems it necessary so to do, in connexion with the audit of the accounts of the Controller and Public Trustee, call upon any person firm or company to produce for inspection any books or documents held by that person firm or company which relate to any property, rights or interests in which the Public Trustee is interested and to furnish any explanations required by the Auditor-General or person so authorized, in connexion with any such property, rights or interests.

“(3) Any such person, firm or company, who or which, on being required, in pursuance of this regulation, to produce any such books or documents, or to furnish any such explanations, refuses or fails to do so, shall be guilty of an offence against these Regulations.”

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

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