STATUTORY RULES.
1923. No. 186.
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REGULATION UNDER THE TREATIES OF PEACE (AUSTRIA AND BULGARIA) ACT 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 Treaties of Peace (Austria and Bulgaria) Act 1920, to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this fifth day of December, 1923.
FORSTER,
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE.
for Minister of State for Trade and Customs.
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Amendment of Treaty of Peace (Bulgaria) Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1921, No. 63, as amended to this date.)
Regulation 5 of the Treaty of Peace (Bulgaria) Regulations is amended—
(a) by adding at the end of paragraph (a) of sub‑regulation (1) the following proviso:—
“Provided that payments in respect of the claims of British nationals for the proceeds of the liquidation of their property, rights and interests mentioned in Section IV. of Part IX. of the Treaty and in the annex thereto, and the enemy debts owing to them referred to in Article 176 of the Treaty, shall rank in priority to any of the other payments mentioned in this paragraph”; and
(b) by inserting after sub‑regulations (1) the following sub‑regulations:—
“(1a) the payments mentioned in the last preceding sub‑regulation may be made by the Public Trustee out of the proceeds of the realization of property, rights and interests charged by the last preceding sub‑regulation.
“(1B) Payments authorized by the last preceding sub‑regulation to be made to—
(a) British nationals who were on the ninth day of August, 1920, resident in the Commonwealth or in a Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth;
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(b) British nationals born in Australia who were on the ninth day of August, 1920, resident outside the Commonwealth, or any Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth; and
(c) persons who were on the ninth day of August 1920, British nationals by virtue of their having been naturalized in the Commonwealth and who were on that date resident outside the Commonwealth or any Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth,
shall be made in priority to payments so authorized to be made to other British nationals.
“(1c) The Public Trustee may deduct from any amount payable by him under this regulation a commission not exceeding two and one‑half per centum of the amount payable.”
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