Treaty of Peace Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1921. No. 232.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919‑1920.

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 Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919‑1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fourteenth day of December, 1921.

FORSTER,

Governor‑General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of the Treaty of Peace Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1920, No. 25, as amended by Statutory Rules 1920, No. 235, and Statutory Rules 1921, Nos. 13, 46, 78, 85, and 109.)

The Treaty of Peace Regulations are amended by inserting in regulation 36 thereof, after sub‑regulation (1) the following sub‑regulations:—

“(1a) Where the Governor‑General orders that any property, rights and interests be released from the charges specified in the last preceding sub‑regulation, the order shall, where the property, rights and interests have been vested in the custodian, have effect of revesting the property, rights and interests in the person to whom they belonged at the date of the coming into force of the Treaty or, where that person is dead or bankrupt, in his personal representative or the official assignee of his property, as the case may be.

“(1b) The publication in the New Guinea Gazette of any order to which the preceding sub‑regulation applies shall be conclusive evidence of the revesting under that sub‑regulation of the property referred to in the order.

“(1c) Where property is, in pursuance of this regulation revested in any person that person shall not be entitled, as against the Commonwealth or the Administration of Now Guinea or any authority of the Commonwealth or that Administration, to compensation or damages in respect of any action taken by the Commonwealth, the Administration or any such authority in respect of that property prior to its being revested in pursuance of this section.”

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