Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations 1919 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 278.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1917-1918.

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 Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1917-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this sixth day of December, 1919.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. A. WATT,

for Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendment of Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations 1919.

(Statutory Rules 1919, No. 123, as amended by Statutory Rules 1919, No. 263.)

1. Regulation 23 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(2) The Minister may, for any reason which appears to him to be a good and sufficient reason, remove from office any member of the Executive of a Local Committee.

“(2a) The place of any member of the Executive of a Local Committee shall become vacant if he, without leave of the Executive, absents himself from three consecutive meetings of the Executive.

“(2b) If any member of the Executive of a Local Committee is removed from office or his place becomes vacant, another member shall be appointed in his place.”

2. After Regulation 40 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations 1919 the following Regulation is inserted:—

Failure to notify fact of employment.

“40a. An applicant who fails to notify the Department that he is in temporary or permanent employment and has received remuneration in respect of that employment and continues to draw sustenance from the Department shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty £50.”

 

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