War Gratuity Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATION UNDER THE WAR GRATUITY ACTS 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 Regulation under the
Dated this 22nd day of March 1922.
(Signed) Forster
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
S. M. BRUCE
Treasurer.
Amendment of War Gratuity Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1920, No
Regulation 13 of the War Gratuity Regulations is repealed, and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
“13.—(1.) Where before or after the commencement of this regulation, cash has been paid, or War Gratuity Bonds have been issued—
(
a ) to any person to whom war gratuity is not payable; or(
b )to any person to whom war gratuity is payable, to or for a greater amount than the amount of war gratuity payable to that person,that person shall not be entitled to retain the cash wrongly paid or the bonds issued, as the case may be; but shall, when required by the Secretary to the Treasury, forthwith return to the Secretary to the Treasury the cash wrongly paid or the bonds, and any bonds so issued shall be forthwith cancelled, and, in the case of a person to whom war gratuity is payable, a fresh bond for the amount of war gratuity payable issued in its stead.
(2.) Any person who, when required so to do in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation, refuses or fails to return any cash or bonds shall be guilty of an offence against these Regulations.
Penalty: Fifty pounds.
(3.) Any person convicted under this regulation may, in addition to the penalty imposed for the offence, be ordered by the Court to return to the Secretary to the Treasury any cash or bonds required to be returned in Pursuance of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.”
Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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