War Precautions (Enemy Shareholders) Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 172.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1918 AND THE LAND, MINING, SHARES AND SHIPPING ACT 1919.

I, SIR WILLIAM HILL IRVINE, the Deputy of 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 War Precautions Act 1914-1918 and the Land, Mining, Shares and Shipping Act 1919, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of September, 1920.

W. H. IRVINE,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

LITTLETON E. GROOM,

for Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of the War Precautions (Enemy Shareholders) Regulations 1916, as Amended to this Date.

1. Regulation 2 of the War Precautions (Enemy Shareholders) Regulations is amended by omitting therefrom the definition of “Public Trustee” and inserting in its stead the following definition;—

“ ‘Public Trustee’ means the Acting Deputy Comptroller-General of Customs.”

2. After regulation 11ac of the War Precautions (Enemy Shareholders) Regulations the following regulation is added to those Regulations:—

Vesting of certain moneys in Public Trustee under Treaty of Peace Regulations.

“11ad. In the case of moneys held by the Public Trustee under these Regulation on behalf of persons who are German nationals within the meaning of the Treaty of Peace Regulations made under the Treaty of Peace Act 1919, the Attorney-General may by order declare that the moneys are by force of the order vested in the Public Trustee appointed under the Trading with the Enemy Act 1914-1916 as moneys vested in him under those Regulations, and thereupon the provisions of those Regulations shall apply to such moneys as if they were vested in him under those Regulations.”

3. After regulation 20 of the War Precautions (Enemy Shareholders) Regulations the following regulation is added to those Regulations:—

Validation of acts of Acting Comptroller-General of Customs, &c.

“20a. Any power or authority which is by these Regulations vested in the Public Trustee and which has been, or purports to have been, exercised, before the commencement of this regulation, by any person for the time being holding the office of Acting Comptroller-General of Customs or Acting Deputy Comptroller-General of Customs and purporting to act as Public Trustee, shall be deemed to have been, at all times, exercised by that person as validly and effectually as if it had been exercised by the Public Trustee in pursuance of these Regulations.”

  

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