War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 106.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR

PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1915.

War Precautions Regulations 1915—Regulation 47b.

Addition.

I, SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies, in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following regulation under the WarPrecautions Act 1914-1915 should come into immediate operation and make the regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

A. L. STANLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

 

War Precautions Regulations 1915.

Addition.

The following new paragraph is inserted after paragraph 47a:—

Allotment of soldier’s pay and separation allowance not to be assignable.

47b. (1) In this Regulation "allottee" includes any person to whom an allotment from the pay of a soldier enlisted for service  during the present war has been made and any person entitled to a separation allowance in respect of a soldier.

(2) The right of any allottee to receive allotments of pay or separation allowances shall be incapable of assignment whether absolutely or by way of pledge or mortgage or otherwise.

(3) Any such assignment made prior to the making of this Regulation shall as from the making of this Regulation be void.

(4) Any person who, and the manager or other responsible officer or employee of any corporate body which, accepts any such assignment shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

(5) Any allottee maydemand the return of an allotment certificate from any person who claims to hold it by way of assignment, and any such person who after demand fails to return such certificate to the allottee shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

(6) If any officer whose duty it is to make payments on behalf of the Department of Defence has reason to believe that any person holding an authority to receive allotments of pay or separation allowance on behalf of an allottee, is an agent for or is collecting such allotment of pay or allowance on behalf of any person claiming the same by way of assignment, the officer may refuse to pay to the person holding the authority.

 

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