Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1933. No. 132.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1931.

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 1920-1931.

Dated this sixth day of December, 1933.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. W. C. MARR

Minister of State for Repatriation.

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Amendment of Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1925, No. 110 as amended to this date.)

Regulation 60 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (c) and inserting in its stead the following paragraphs:—

(c) to furnish to the Deputy Commissioner when required by him—

(i) a statement, certified as correct by a competent auditor and by the Secretary of the Local Committee, showing, in respect of contributions received in pursuance of regulation 59 of these Regulations, the total receipts, total expenditure on benefits to soldiers or their dependants, total expenditure on administration, balance held, where banked or how invested; the statement to show progressive figures from the earliest date from which particulars are available and the qualification, trade or profession of the auditor;

(ii) a list of the full names, occupations, and addresses of the members of the Local Committee; and

(d)to furnish such other information as the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner from time to time requires.

2. After regulation 60 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“60a.—(1.) Where a Local Committee has failed or refused to furnish any information required to be furnished in pursuance of the provisions of paragraph (c) or paragraph (d)of regulation 60 of these

Regulations, the Deputy Commissioner may, by notice in writing, require the person who is acting or who has acted, as secretary to the Local Committee, or any member of the Local Committee, to furnish, within one month from the date of the notice, the particulars which the Local Committee was required to furnish.

(2.) If any notice given in pursuance of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation is not complied with to the satisfaction of the Deputy Commissioner, the Commission may, by notification in the Gazette declare that the funds of the Local Committee to which the notice refers are vested in the Commission, and thereupon those funds shall become vested in the Commission.

(3.) Upon notification by the Commission that the funds of a Local Committee have been vested in the Commission pursuant to sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation, any person or body having the control of those funds shall transfer the funds to the Commission or otherwise deal with them as directed by the Deputy Commissioner.”

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.