War Service Estates Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1951. No. 55

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR SERVICE ESTATES ACT 1942-1943.*

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 War Service Estates Act 1942-1943.

Dated fifteenth day of June, 1951.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Army.

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Amendments of the War Service Estates Regulations.

Payment of shares of infants.

1.Regulation 12 of the War Service Estates Regulations is amended by omitting the words “, for the purposes of these Regulations, appoint the Repatriation Commission to be the guardian of the infant, and shall ”.

2. After regulation 13 of the War Service Estates Regulations the following regulation is added :—

Application of estate where no person beneficially entitled thereto.

“ 14. The Services Canteens Trust Fund, established under the Services Trust Funds Act 1947, is a prescribed fund to the maintenance of which proceeds of estates shall be applied in accordance with section 7 of the Act.”.

Validation.

3. Where, before the commencement of these Regulations, the whole or any part of the war service estate of a deceased member was paid to the Repatriation Commission in purported pursuance of regulation 12 of the War Service Estates Regulations, that payment shall be deemed to have been validly made notwithstanding that the authorized person had not, before making the payment—

(a)formed the opinion that the guardian of the infant, or the person who, in the opinion of the authorized person, stood in the relation of guardian to the infant, was unfitted to act as trustee of the share; or

(b)complied with any provision of regulations 8, 9, 10 and 13 of the War Service Estates Regulations.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1951.

  Statutory Rules 1943, No. 234; as amended by Statutory Rules 1943, No. 292.

 

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

2349.—Price 3d. 9/3.5.1951.